The New Math on Campus with a student body that is nearly 60 percent female.

Isn't that way at Ole Miss, and there are more women than men. Sounds like a personal problem, self esteem, all that, you know.

Man, I wish that was the case at my school. I'm at a tech school for heavy duty diesel mechanics and the ratio is about 99 to 1. (Its not that surprising though)

As already commented, the bigger question is why is there such a disparity between academic fields. Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics remain to this day a predominately male field. In Engineering, this is a huge problem for the field as it basically limits us to 50% of the potential engineers needed.

The bigger issue is that girls out perform boys in both math and science, across social and economic backgrounds, until they hit puberty. Its quite a clear picture of social pressures placed onto women to conform to societal norms.

Add in that many schools are basically handing out useless degrees (American Studies, Communications, etc) and this leads to a glut of graduates with no real post college job opportunities.

I go to a large state school where the enrollment is still skewed towards males. I can’t say that I would complain if it was the opposite way around though. That being the case, it still seems like hot young girls are everywhere here and no guy should have any problem meeting someone.

This article has definitely got me thinking about new criteria for picking a grad school.

not finding a problem here.. can we talk grad school chicks now or what??

I went Vassar college, where female to male ratio is higher than 60-40%. It was the best two 1/2 years of my life!. I averaged about 12 girls a semester, and my numbers were on the low end compared to my friends. The funny thing is, you didn’t even need to try. All you had to do was to go to a party and get wasted. There was always groups of drunk aggressive girls trying to out do each other to get your attention.

60% is not a large majority. Interesting article, but it's treating the dating scene at universities like a problematic issue, which is absurd. College folks have sex. That's what they *do.* The fact that the poor men are being hungered after by the women is hardly a case of victimisation.

I go to an enginneering college and its still only has a 10% female population so I can't relate to this at all.

there are apparently no gays lesbians bisexuals or transgenders at universities.

I have an engineering degree, my class ratio was 9 male to 1 female, i could tell it was difficult for some boys to meet girls but just because they were already awkward towards women, i guess i had the upper hand but i never use somebody the way this article portrays the way guys interact with woman.
Its hard to watch the level of desperation the article shows I don’t think its THAT bad, is it?
I mean, to make infidelity part of the equation…

i go to a film school that is mostly guys.

i chose the wrong god damn school.

:p

I graduated a year ago and can tell you that my campus was heavily skewed towards women. It does make dating difficult with so many women to choose from. The smarter the guy, the more chicks he had following him around.

Sure, there are plenty of women who are going to school to get a degree, but some are also looking to come out with a MRS as well. That mentality hasn't died yet.

As for improving male enrollment?
Once universities start to "play up" these stats to high school males, I give it another four years until our colleges are a sausage fests. :)

This article brings out many issues. As a parent it is very sad to see male students join military or work force instead of higher education. The rate of boys drop out is higher than girls, and the rate of college enrolment is lower then girls yet all girl's charter schools are promoted, and much of federal programs are available for girls only. The education department must not be reading the statistics!

It is also very sad that complaints about “affirmative action for boys,” are not as important as the focus on the social ramifications. What does that tell us? That it's ok that our sons go to war or work force, but we should focus on social ramifications for female students?

And what about Mr. Farmer who said. “I wouldn’t want any young woman here to think that there’s somebody we’d rather have here than her"?

And lastly, females are aggressive to gain a boyfriend but god forbid she later will decide she really did not like sex and claims rape...

OK, it's time to start addressing these issues one at the time. Got to go and work on it.

Isnt this a good thing?? Why is it being spun as a bad thing?? It seems more to me that there is a bit more competition in an atmosphere where there are such proportions....... kinda like the opposite of a "sausage party". We are but human, and strive for affection and connection. I doubt that more women in college is really a bad thing in general......

The ratio of females to males at my school is seven to one ( I go to a state school) so this isn't really that surprising.

the only thing more disproportionate than the college student body ratio of males to females, is the number of males to females who actually get a diploma in four years.

My, how the pendulum of time changes events. . .

Even when they win the victim feminists find a way to be victims. Can you believe this "Women on gender-imbalanced campuses are paying a social price for success and, to a degree, are being victimized by men precisely because they have outperformed them, Professor Campbell said."