Male students may get lower grades, but perform better in some tests than female students
The gender gap in higher education is widening – and this may be due to the way universities admit students and help them finance their studies.
According to the American Institute for Boys and Men, men earn 42 percent of bachelor’s degrees, 38 percent of master’s degrees and 44 percent of doctoral degrees.
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“One relevant data point is that a smaller percentage of men attending college receive assistance – for example, in the 2019-2020 school year, 67% of male students and 74% of female students received assistance,” a spokesperson said The repair by email.
Many universities award scholarships specifically to women but do not offer comparable support to men.
A 2019 SAVE Services study of 200 colleges found that “57% of institutions offer scholarships that blatantly violate Title IX provisions prohibiting sex discrimination.”
There are also numerous current examples.
The University of Iowa Velma E. Stuit Scholarship awards up to $2,500 to full-time female students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The university also offers the Myrtle K. Maier Scholarship, which is for junior students majoring in physics, but “preference is given to female students.” The University of Iowa does not offer scholarships exclusively for men.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology offers several scholarships exclusively for women. The Laya Wiesner Award is an annual scholarship available to any female undergraduate student. The MIT Women’s League scholarships are also available to female students and are funded by the university’s endowment.
MIT does not offer scholarships specifically for male students.
Yale’s University Women’s Organization Scholarship program offers several scholarships for female students who have immediate family ties to the university and whose studies have had to be postponed due to children or other reasons. Yale does not offer scholarships exclusively for men.
According to AIBM, the fact that many universities are increasingly moving away from using standardized test scores as a requirement may be another factor contributing to the gender gap in higher education.
“Girls have higher grade point averages, take more AP courses, participate in more extracurricular activities, etc.,” the group said The repair“One little-researched idea is that since schools no longer consider test scores in admissions, it has become increasingly difficult for men who perform relatively well on tests compared to grades and non-cognitive factors to get into college.”
“While female students perform better in English and social sciences than their male counterparts, they perform better in mathematics and science,” concluded a 2014 ACT research review.
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The slight advantage of male test takers in the overall score can also be seen in the data compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics from 1995 to 2010.
The repair turned to the American Association of University Women, an organization that calls on others to “join the fight for gender equality.”
The repair asked whether there is a possible connection between the declining number of men enrolled in college and the lack of support that men receive in their studies. The repair The survey also asked what colleges and universities should do to minimize the gender gap.
Kendall Ridley, senior director of communications and marketing, said the group “could not participate because these issues are far outside our area of expertise of education/equality for women and girls.”
Mark Perry, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Michigan Flint, said The repair There may be a link between disproportionate financial aid and programs targeting women and the persistent gender gap. Perry, an economist affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute, also found that male students tend to perform better in math than female students, according to a 2016 review of 50 years of data.
Over the past six years, Professor Perry has filed more than 900 complaints of civil rights violations in federal court, alleging more than 2,000 violations of Title VI (racial discrimination) and Title IX (sex discrimination). The vast majority of the 2,000 violations involve scholarships, research grants, awards, grants, internships, and campus programs awarded only to women.
“There is definitely a disproportionate favoritism and preference towards college women, both illegal and legal,” Perry said. “This could definitely contribute to the growing disproportionate representation of women compared to men in colleges.”
“There are no scholarships just for men,” Perry said.
He said, “It is likely that male college students will become discouraged and disillusioned and either drop out of college or not attend at all.”
Even if universities provided equal resources to men and women, it would take several generations to achieve equal representation of both sexes in higher education, he said.
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