Women earned the majority of doctoral degrees in 2020 for the 12th straight year

US education fails boys significantly starting all the way back in elementary school. I knew multiple teachers in high school who talked about how the system fails boys and doesn&#x27;t know how to engage them and extends especially to minority boys. I think it&#x27;s a pretty poorly kept open secret. This article basically covers what I&#x27;ve been told for years by educator friends.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cpreview.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2021&#x2F;6&#x2F;why-are-we-failing-our-sons-an-inquiry-into-the-education-gap-that-plagues-young-boys-in-america-today" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cpreview.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2021&#x2F;6&#x2F;why-are-we-failing-our-s...</a>

I’m guessing this just reflects the declining usefulness of a PhD in the modern world. I received one in 2001 and never used it because the prospects for an academic were terrible and they don’t seem to have improved since.

Should there be some sort of quota in place? Maybe we should start positive-discrimination in selection of canditates?

Demographic statistics where men are behind are a perfect neutral laboratory environment to study demographics because there&#x27;s no menminism movement to put their fingers on the scale, and also no matriarchy to put <i>their</i> finger on the scale. At most you get a few tweets making fun of the situation or using it to indirectly make fun of feminists or something, and that&#x27;s fairly encouraging by normal environmental standards.

The total is only 54% to 46% - not too uneven, I&#x27;d be very worried if the imbalance was much worse though as it indicates our education system isn&#x27;t serving males well for whatever reason (the reason might not be the fault of the education system).<p>However it is very insightful to notice that females are only 25% in engineering, and 76% in public administration. Those are the worst imbalances, but there are others almost as bad. There is a lot of work to do in getting real balance.

Yes. that&#x27;s what happens when you have an institutional bias against men. Why is anybody surprised about it? Why is there no discussion about it?

This is actually very high internationally, I wonder why? USA doesn&#x27;t have particularly high ratio of women in undergrad (they are more than men there as well, but women outnumber men in undergrad in basically every country), so it isn&#x27;t that they have more women as a base, they just get more women into grad programs. Could international students be the cause?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;how-nations-fare-in-phds-by-sex-interactive1&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scientificamerican.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;how-nations-fare-...</a>

I notice that Engineering and Math&#x2F;CS are still heavily male-dominated, though.<p>So are these departments particularly hostile to women, or are women less interested in pursuing these subjects? If so -- in either case, actually -- why might that be?

As economy improves, society can afford more useless jobs, more useless pseudoscience &quot;research&quot;, and more useless PhDs. That&#x27;s it.

(In the US)

And after 12 years, what percent of women with PhDs are a. still in academia and b. tenured or working in tenure-track jobs?<p>&quot;While women represent just over half (52.9%) of Assistant Professors and are near parity (46.4%) among Associate Professors, they accounted for barely over a third (34.3%) of Professors in 2018.&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.catalyst.org&#x2F;research&#x2F;women-in-academia&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.catalyst.org&#x2F;research&#x2F;women-in-academia&#x2F;</a><p>2019: &quot;female tenured associate professors are fewer in number now than when my colleagues and I began looking at the data in 2003.&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brookings.edu&#x2F;blog&#x2F;brown-center-chalkboard&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;29&#x2F;though-more-women-are-on-college-campuses-climbing-the-professor-ladder-remains-a-challenge&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brookings.edu&#x2F;blog&#x2F;brown-center-chalkboard&#x2F;2019&#x2F;...</a><p>The Catalyst research doesn&#x27;t address how many are no longer in academia, but the above cited Brookings article says, &quot;Women experienced disproportionately high rates of leaving academia by their second or third semesters.&quot;

Half of these degrees are PRETEND.<p>A &quot;liberal arts&quot; &quot;doctorate&quot; means EXACTLY NOTHING.<p>The entire society is going to pay a heavy price for pretending unequal things are equal.<p>Your GenderFaggot Studies degree does NOT equal my Doctorates&#x2F;Masters in Engineering, Computer Science and Medicine.<p>I refuse to pretend that they are.<p>You should too.

The gender gap is real but not in the way MSM presents.

Good information. Terrible editorializing.

One well-informed tidbit, for those who think that getting a Ph.D. might be desirable, or even a sane decision. (At least in the academic humanities.) -<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;acoup.blog&#x2F;2021&#x2F;10&#x2F;01&#x2F;collections-so-you-want-to-go-to-grad-school-in-the-academic-humanities&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;acoup.blog&#x2F;2021&#x2F;10&#x2F;01&#x2F;collections-so-you-want-to-go-...</a><p>TL;DR summary - &quot;So Should You Do it? [...] <i>No, you should not.</i> [emphasis mine]&quot;

&quot;Okay google, show me graphs on SSRI prescriptions since 2008.&quot; &quot;Siri, show me fastest growing cause of death among women ages 30+ who are unmarried without children.&quot; &quot;Alexa, show me how ACT scores are weighted by gender and race... now graph it.&quot;<p>Fellas, I think we&#x27;ve been set up.