Schools examine gender issues
- Category: Education
- 20 Dec
- Written by Nick Penzenstadler
Experts: No one reason men's numbers lower
Men have long been outnumbered by women in higher education in the U.S., going back to the 1980s. What's drawn less notice is they are also less likely to earn bachelor's degrees.
Graduation rates across nearly all University of Wisconsin System schools are consistently higher for women. Last year, 62 percent of the females who entered the UW System in 2004 had graduated, compared with 58 percent for men.
No comments yetReversing the gender gap: Women surpass men at CSU
- Category: Education
- 19 Dec
- Written by Lisa M. Krieger
Women are leapfrogging men into the classroom at the nation's largest university system, redefining the gender gap on California State University campuses in a startling way.
About six out of 10 CSU graduates last spring were female -- a complete reversal over the past four decades. Some campuses, like Dominguez Hills and Stanislaus, have almost twice as many women as men, feeling eerily like women's colleges.
