re: #469 BryanS

I agree that preferences for men is a bad policy. I would just like to see the same kind of effort dedicated to male academic achievement as still is in place for women. How many men are encouraged to go into female dominated fields? How many scholarships go to men pursuing degrees in education, or nursing?

I get the impression that the disparity is mostly cultural, not the result of a lack of programs in which men can excel. For sociological reasons as yet unknown, girls are just more motivated to achieve at this point in our history. Even engineering schools, which used to be nearly exclusively male, are approaching 50-50. And most other professional schools now have a clear majority of females.