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My in-laws' FAC has gone heavily into the whole ZOMG BOYS IN CRISIS thing, which means that MIL has too -- it's... interesting to hear her happily navigate the contradiction between "liberal society has a conspiracy to feminize boys by making them sit still and do homework and it's going to destroy the USA*" and "those children need stricter discipline and the three R's".
* if you make them wash the dishes they turn out to be gay and not good husbands and soldiers, or something.
Oh, huh. I wonder where I picked that up, then.
I believe the population ratio has slightly more women than men.
More boys are born but more girls survive? Or something like that?
Here are the hard stats on degree-granting by sex, for associates' degrees through PhDs. Women are now on par even for PhDs, and "first professional" which includes MDs, and ahead for everything below that. [link]
The hell?? Because being married to a CEO is exactly the same as BEING a CEO. Just ask Betty Draper.
I'm fairly sure this person watches/would watch Mad Men and think, "The early sixties were awesome! You could cheat and drink and smoke at the office!" like Sterling Cooper is some sort of utopia.
I think the college ratio is 57/43 Female/Male and has stabilized there. My guesses for the reason why are that there are more job opportunities for males without a college degree, social factors that make boys think academics are wimpy, and that girls read a lot more.
More boys die in childhood in the US; by the time you're in the 15-30 year old age bracket the sex ratio is 1:1. [link] Since men die sooner in old age (over 65 there are 3 men to every 4 women), overall women are ahead.
flea, I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to stop supporting FACTS with DATA! Heh.
I did know that Masters degrees were on par these-a-days (but was too lazy to qualify a PERFECTLY GOOD RANT), but for some reason wasn't tuned into the Ph.D.s being so. It might be because I'm at a school that has heavy male-dominated fields and so there's a lot of work to overcome that shizz.
More boys are born but more girls survive? Or something like that?
I think that's it. We men folk die more.
I'm a librarian! I find statistics for students who want to bolster their arguments with data every day! I can't help it!