The Changing Demographics Of Higher #Education | SafeHaven.com
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Women beat men in all degree categories of higher education, and they have for decades—and worldwide. Men, it seems are slowing enrollment at an alarming rate, and young women are driving the change.
While men once outnumbered women in terms of collection enrollment by as much as 58 percent to 42 percent in the 1970s, the ratio has now almost reversed.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, women comprised more than 56 percent of students on campuses nationwide last year. That same year, about 2.2 million fewer men than women were enrolled in college.
And it’s a trend that shows no sign of veering off course. The National Center for Education Statistics also estimates that 57 percent of college students will be women by 2026.
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I hate to sound like a nay-sayer, but feminization of professions is highly correlated with lower pay and status. Women were the first software engineers back in the day when hardware was cool, and then that speciality was reconstituted as requiring masculine attributes when software became a rewarding line of work. So I wonder if this development is a sign that more educational attainment is becoming less valuable than in the past.