The campus crusade for guys

Salon.com Life | The campus crusade for guys: "Amid national panic over a growing academic gender gap, educators have begun to ask, might it be time to adopt affirmative action for boys?"

This article is an interesting look at the increasing gender gap on college campuses. I tend to agree with the narrative arc of the story, that it isn't a huge concern. Phyllis Rosser of Ms. Magazine who is quoted in the article points out that there hasn't been any decline in bachelor's degrees awarded to men, simply an increase in the numbers of women getting degrees. Paired with a statistic earlier in the article discussing the fact that men don't receive significant economic gains from a bachelor's degre while women earn 24 percent more than they would otherwise, this makes sense. (The numbers are that way because of the relative prevalence of well-paid blue collar work more available to men without degrees than women).

But I'm aware that I'm inherently very skeptical about anything focused on the supposed war on boys. The biological arguments about skills like reading and sitting still being "girl" skills that put boys at a disadvantage are just flat out stupid.