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Originally Posted by GGG
So for years when Engineering Enrolement was roughly 10% female was that a failure of women to apply. Female students were not being rejected to have more male students. They simply didn't and still don't apply at the same rates that make students do. Yet there are programs run by the colleges to encourage female enrolement in engineering.
Yet in nursing it has been even more rare for males to enroll. Male students were not being rejected to have more female students. They simply didn't and still don't apply at the same rates that female students do. Yet there are No programs run by the colleges to encourage male enrolement in nursing.
This problem will eventually reveal itself in the lagging data. And this isn't to say programs shouldnt encourage women to go into STEM fields at higher rates. It's that boys face different challanges in navigating the education system and it should looked at how to improve these outcomes.
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Yes, there are programs to encourage men to enroll in nursing. I posted one of the posters for one of the programs two posts above yours.
Failure to enroll is on the student, not on the system. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. If you hand an application to a man and a woman, and only the woman bothers to fill out the paperwork, is it not the man's fault for him not being accepted? Or are you suggesting that women are better at filling out paperwork and the institutions need to make is easier for men to enroll?
I'm also curious about these "challenges" men have in navigating the education system, and then what outcomes you are talking about? Can you expand on this?