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Originally Posted by New Era
Come on Cliff, they aren't the same thing. Not even close. One is a recruiting effort to attract more diversity in a program and industry while the other is a complete failure by a segment to even apply. I would agree with you if male students were being rejected in favor of female students, but that isn't happening. If demand for a class is such, extra sections will be added. I'm not sure what it is like in Canada, but in the States colleges/universities are not turning away business in any shape or form. What is happening is males are just not enrolling to attend school. Recruiting efforts are happening, and both genders are being offered opportunity, it's just the females are following through and males are not. No action is taken by the school to preclude a male student, the males are doing it themselves by not even enrolling.
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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.