Nancy Gibbs College Confidential Summary

Women are obtaining more then half of the bachelor degrees earned in America but that has not limited the earning and abilities of the working class man. Phyllis Rosser’s, Too Many Women in College? (2005) is used to expose the still continuing gender issues in higher education. It exposes the issue that yes, there are more women then men in undergrad and master’s programs but men are still outnumbering women in doctoral programs as well as higher paying fields of study (engineering, computer science, business). Still regardless of education women will still face the income gap. Comparing Lee’s and Shaw’s conclusion to the study by Investing in Futures Public Higher Education in America, Women in Higher Education both sources have come to the conclusion that women make up over half of students enrolled in undergrad and their is an uneven representation of women in math and science based degree programs. Janet Lee’s and Susan M. Shaw’s, Women’s Voices Feminist Visions Classic and Contemporary Readings is an accredited and well developed source that highlights the development of women’s

As discussed in a recent essay by Saul Kaplan “The Plight of Young Males”, there is a serious academic gender achievement gap in the United States and as I will discuss, around the world. Young women are doing significantly better than young men, and the results are shocking. In the latest census, males make up 51 percent of the total U.S. population between the ages of 18-24. Yet only 40 percent of today’s college students are men. Since 1982, more American women than men have received bachelor’s degrees. In the last ten years, two million more women graduated from college than men. As Kaplan reveals, the average eleventh-grade boy writes at the level of the average eighth-grade girl. He also states that women dominate high school honor rolls and now make up more than 70 percent of class valedictorians. Kaplan says, “I am happy to see women succeeding. But can we really afford for our country’s young men to fall so far behind,” (733)?

On December 2, 2016, in the opinion editorial, “How to Get In,” Susan Estrich, best-selling author and liberal columnist for the Creators, argues that hard work, not college acceptances, determine people’s future successes, challenging the notion that people’s opportunities and potentials are defined by the colleges they enter. Refuting the misconception that “getting into the right college is a meal ticket for life,” Estrich argues that GPA’s and LSAT’s may decide the difference between rejection and acceptance, but ultimately, tenacious hard work throughout life counts “for more than anything else,” before concluding that the “secret to a good application” is honesty and that, although she understands admissions can be partisan and erroneous through personal experience, in the end, she “did just fine”- an echoing sentiment to all prospective college applicants. Estrich

Men and women deserve to have be treated equally, but for some people that is not the case. “In 2014, 11 percent of men were accepted at Brown versus 7 percent of women, according to U.S. Department of Education data ( Washington post )”. Why is it that it was harder for woman to get into Brown University? This is not only at Brown University, this includes several other colleges like Colombia University, Pomona College, and Vanderbilt University. A possible reason for this is that the colleges have a higher need for men. Even if that was true the colleges should give woman an equal opportunity to get in.

Many colleges were still segregated by gender. Some schools like American, Cornell, Penn, Iowa, Oberlin and Bates, became or were founded as coeducational in the 19th century. The Ivy League schools Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth and others didn't integrate the sexes until the 1960s or '70s. College’s now a days are not segregated by gender now it is completely different. College is much more organized and more technical than It was back in the 1920’s.

On top of exceptional students getting declined, prestigious schools are accepting less qualified students such as legacies, athletes, and minorities, contributing to the flawed system. Rather than admitting students based on their potential to succeed and personal attributes alone, universities often admit slightly inferior candidates in order to increase their diversity population and maintain a dedicated alumni. In A is For Admission, Michele Hernandez mentions some of these discrepancies when explaining that legacies, students with a parent who attended the university, have a forty percent acceptance rate at Dartmouth in comparison with the typical ten percent acceptance rate (183). Additionally, Hernandez further explains that athletes

This article started off to be about a girl named Madalyn, who received a thin envelope in the mail saying she was wait listed to one of the five colleges she applied to. The author, Jennifer Delahunty Britz tied Madalyn’s college situation with everyone, especially females applying or already have applied. When being a female most of the time a smart, hardworking, and brilliant student is not enough for colleges. Male applications are more valued because men are rarer. I absolutely loved this article, it was well written and I just thought it was great. I could relate to this article and I think that was really what grasped my attention. I like how Jennifer Delahunty Britz wrote facts about male and female applicants. I especially liked the

After decades of fighting for women to have the same education as men and for the policy to be reformed. It has clearly payed off since girls and women are striving academically. The issue in this, is that not enough attention and assistance are given to boys and men. For example, Sommers mentions that in 1997 only 45% of college full time enrollment were men.

For each of the universities/colleges, they combined house more than 16,000 students of which 90% are African American, and there is a gender ratio imbalance of female to male. The gender ratio imbalance of these institutions allots the opportunity to determine the phenomena of “man sharing” among the female students.

Women have infiltrated colleges at every level, as they are leading in the acceptance rates in these colleges as well. “For 35 years, women have outnumbered men in American colleges. Federal data show that female students have become the majority in 1979 and for the past decade have accounted for about 57 percent of enrollment at degree-granting institutions.” The Washington post concludes women and men are now about equal with enrollment rates in ivy-league universities. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald had portrayed the expensive wealth that dripped from these beings and the many flaws that came along with the mistreatment of women and immigrants. Fitzgerald had as well represented that many wealthy women spoke with a diverse dialect,

In the article “End of Men” by Hanna Rosin, Hanna Rosin, a writer, a co-host of the NPR show Invisibilia, about the invisible forces that shape human behavior, she went to Stanford University, Rosin explains how over the years the women’s position has considerably ascended professional, educational and social. In this way, based on research she has demonstrated that all women have the capacity to carry any role that was considered against their nature. Nevertheless, it has been taken into account that women are still the minority in the top professional area. It has been taken into account that women are still the minority in the top professional area, with the women's empowerment this will change because of this: "Women dominate today's colleges

The new view is that women are just as capable as men to go into higher education because women are strong and independent. There is simply no reason though for women to complete higher education. Completing an undergraduate degree

Women have pushed forward in the struggle for equality. Today women are staples in the professional world. More women are attending college than men as proved in recent studies. Women have outnumbered men on college campuses since 1979, and on graduate school campuses since 1984. More American women than men have received bachelor's degrees every year since 1982. Even here on Haverford's campus, the Admissions Office received more applications from women for early decision candidacy than men for the eighth straight year. The wage gap is slowly decreasing and the fight for proper day care services along with insurance coverage for birth control pills are passionate issues for women across America.

Universities give women and minorities special consideration because, throughout history, women and racial minorities have been given the disadvantage of applying to and getting into colleges. The unequal consideration of women and minorities for spots going to or teaching at colleges have led to the creation of higher learning

Firstly, women in society are all invited to obtain a higher education. The issue is not that women not being allowed to obtain an education the problem is that not enough women are aware that college is a stepping stone in life. Not enough women come out of high school necessarily