Summary of the points therein:<p>* Men accounted for 70% of the 1.5m decline in college enrollment last year
* Women have outpaced men in bachelor attainment since the 80s<p>* Women have been told to get college degrees in order to secure independence and freedom for decades<p>* Men were 57% of college enrolled students in 1970 but since Title XI passed barring gender discrimination, the rates have been getting more lopsided for women<p>* Girls outperform boys generally in high school and elementary long before college<p>* Blaming "the feminist dogma of the education system and the inherently distracting presence of girls in classrooms" is dubious<p>* A better explanation is that up to the 1970s, men could secure middle-class wages on blue-collar work, but afterwards, that labor demand dried up and these types of men are adrift, and marry less since they also don't attend church anymore, and so live 'haphazard' lives detached from traditional responsibilities<p>* This has the effect that young boys don't have stable male role models, as men are more likely to be incarcerated, and aren't present enough in early schooling as teachers or as fathers in low-income areas<p>* The college gender gap is also occuring in "France, Slovenia, Mexico, and Brazil".<p>* Perhaps a blend of biological and cultural differences are at play<p>* This will have broad implications for marriage rates, delayed marriage, delayed childbirth<p>* This may have the cultural implication that education be seen as a identified with effeminacy, barring more men still<p>* "The pivot point is in adolescence, and the foundation is laid in the early grades.” This gender gap is an economic story, a cultural story, a criminal-justice story, and a family-structure story that begins to unfold in elementary school. The attention-grabbing statistic that barely 40 percent of college grads are men seems to cry out for an immediate policy response. But rather than dial up male attendance one college-admissions department at a time, policy makers should think about the social forces that make the statistic inevitable."