Not Enough Men?

According to an article in USA Today, the latest Census data show that student enrollment at colleges and universities in the United States is predominantly female. The relevant point for academic hiring: “For every four men enrolled in graduate school in 2006, there were nearly six women,” the reporters, Greg Toppo and Anthony DeBarros, write.

Some professors are concerned that the trend is detrimental to young men, Toppo and DeBarros write:

The numbers are disturbing to Leonard Sax, a Maryland psychologist, family physician and author of Boys Adrift:The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men. He says the data present a picture of “more and more young men who don’t seem to have the drive that their sisters have.”

But before you shed tears for the men, consider posts such as this and this by the anonymous blogger at Am I a Woman Scientist?.