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]
Wesley: We were fighting on opposite sides, but it was the same war. Fred: but you hated her…didn't you? Wesley: It's not always about holding hands.
'Shells'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
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flea - Mar 26, 2010 9:42:58 am PDT #14083 of 30000
information libertarian
Daisy Jane - Mar 26, 2010 9:43:54 am PDT #14084 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
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.
Gudanov - Mar 26, 2010 9:44:03 am PDT #14085 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
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.
flea - Mar 26, 2010 9:46:25 am PDT #14086 of 30000
information libertarian
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.
Nora Deirdre - Mar 26, 2010 9:46:27 am PDT #14087 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
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.
Gudanov - Mar 26, 2010 9:48:11 am PDT #14088 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
More boys are born but more girls survive? Or something like that?
I think that's it. We men folk die more.
flea - Mar 26, 2010 9:48:35 am PDT #14089 of 30000
information libertarian
I'm a librarian! I find statistics for students who want to bolster their arguments with data every day! I can't help it!
amych - Mar 26, 2010 9:51:27 am PDT #14090 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
heh heh heh "want to" heh
meara - Mar 26, 2010 9:53:54 am PDT #14091 of 30000
God, Flea, harsh my mellow about the MAN bringing me DOWN...
Of course, even in my chemistry major ten years ago, the ratio was about on par, simply because so many of the people in the major (men and women) were premed, rather than in it for the chemistry (which meant, more women, rather than manly men CHEMICALS CHEMISTRY RAWR!!). Of course, the professors were almost uniformly male.
Shir - Mar 26, 2010 9:58:49 am PDT #14092 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
More boys are born but more girls survive? Or something like that?
Actually, more women are being killed earlier in life, through abortions, malnutrition, selling them as slaves (which shorten their lives, since slavery changed since the 18th century and they're "disposable" [link] ), or simply by giving their children the best that they can give, and hence neglecting themselves.
By raw demographic data, there are several millions of missing women in the world today. There such a thing as gendercide, and it's being silenced.
(My demography classes, they kick ass).