The College Gender Gap, by Linda Sax, is coming out. It’s not what you might expect. In fact, Sax suggests people like me are wasting their time worrying about gender imbalances. It’s not the numbers, she argues, but the qualitative differences in how men and women experience college. I would argue that numbers do matter: With college functioning as the new high school, there’s no reason why men should not be going to college at the same rates as women. Still, she has some interesting points.
Here’s her Chronicle of Higher Education commentary:
