Much has been made regarding how women are attending and graduating college in greater numbers than men. According to USA Today, women are 21% more likely to graduate college, and 48% more likely to earn an advanced degree (Sheffler, 2014), and yet women make up less than 30% of STEM graduates (Neuhauser, 2014). Women instead tend to major in fields like English and Liberal Arts (Goudreau, 2010) which earn far less than STEM, and often require an advanced degree simply to find employment within that field. In reality, the much-celebrated college attendance and graduation rates of women have little impact on the real world when they major in low-demand and low-paying subjects. Despite women taking over colleges, men are still earning more than women starting out after college precisely because men major in more lucrative fields like STEM (Sheffler, 2014).
It would be bad enough that men are continuously shamed for earning more than women, and told that because women get better grades in easier subjects, that women are more intelligent (SourceFed, 2014) or motivated (Lewin, 2006). However, women are also given disproportionate financial aid to attend college, even though they are now a sizeable majority of college students compared to men. While data is difficult to find, using the University of Oklahoma as an anecdotal example, in 2007 women received 78% of scholarships, and between the years of 2008 -2013 women received 89%, 77%, 68%, 94%, 92%, and 100% respectively (OU SLIS, 2013).
Government grants are another major source of funding for women wishing to attend college. There are numerous resources available created specifically for women (Scholarships for Women), but none specifically for men, unless you count athletic scholarships, which are a sticking point with Feminist activists who resent that female athletics lose money while male athletics make money for colleges (Bloomberg News, 2011). It seems fans aren’t interested in paying to watch female athletes perform at the level of a male high school junior varsity team. However, if you put athletics aside, and focus only on the resources available to help men obtain college degrees, those resources are sorely lacking, while money is being thrown at women who are wasting it on Liberal Arts degrees instead of STEM.
One of the unintended consequences of ignoring men in favor of women is that there is a shortage of STEM majors in the United States; causing employers to turn to H-1B visas in order to import immigrants from Asian countries to do the work, as there aren’t enough qualified Americans available (Logan, 2015). Algenol, a chemical company in Florida is quoted as saying that they always try to find qualified Americans to hire, but are often forced to turn to H-1B visas in order to fill vacancies (Logan, 2015).
The H-1B program is designed to bring in immigrant workers to work in specific technical fields like architecture, engineering, mathematics, physical sciences, biotech, accounting, business, as well as others (Logan, 2015), in other words, the fields that men traditionally specialize in.
According to the National Science Foundation, 19.25% of scientists were immigrants in 2005 (NSF, 2009). The only reason it isn’t higher is that there is a “cap” of H-1B visas at 65,000. However, Gary Beach of the Wall Street Journal advocates lifting that cap, as the United States needs more skilled technology workers (Beach, 2015). Beach further advocates that public education needs serious reform in order to teach the skills needed for technology, but that this will take 20-years to complete (Beach, 2015).
Speaking of public education, Christina Hoff Sommers summarizes how the problem starts there, wherein Feminism has become entrenched by saying…
“Being a boy can be a serious liability in today’s classroom. As a group, boys are noisy, rowdy and hard to manage. Many are messy, disorganized and won’t sit still. Young male rambunctiousness, according to a recent study, leads teachers to underestimate their intellectual and academic abilities. “Girl behavior is the gold standard in schools,” says psychologist Michael Thompson. “Boys are treated like defective girls” (Sommers, 2013).
In another article Sommers notes “teachers who work daily with male and female students tend to reflexively dismiss any challenge to the myth, or any evidence pointing to the very real crisis among boys” (Sommers, The War Against Boys, 2000). In fact, boys are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD and drugged rather than receive help. Jane Collingwood of Psych Central notes that while adult diagnoses for ADHD are split evenly between men and women, 82% of teachers treat it as a male problem, with 40% admitting they don’t see the problem in girls (Collingwood). Coincidentally over 75% of teachers are female (NCES, 2013), with the number one reason men avoid becoming teachers being the fear of a false accusation of rape or abuse by a vindictive female student (Brace, 2012).
This fear of being falsely accused of rape is shared by male college students, as they are guilty until proven innocent in cases of rape or sexual assault ( Schow, 2014). Combined with the aforementioned lack of financial support, men are lagging behind women overall and yet remain the vast majority of STEM major graduates. All of this is happening while a STEM shortage is causing employers to import Asian immigrants.
Allow me to connect the dots now that we have analyzed the entire problem:
Girls are favored over boys in our public educational system
Girls are showered with money in order to attend college
Boys major in STEM, but not enough are entering college due to lack of financial support, or fear of a Feminist witch hunt
Girls are not majoring in STEM
Employers can’t find enough STEM workers to fill jobs and turn to H-1B visas to import skilled labor from Asia instead.
On March 19th 2015, President Barack Obama noted:
“When these tech jobs go unfilled, it’s a missed opportunity for low-wage workers who could transform their earnings potential with just a little bit of training. And that costs our whole economy in terms of lost wages and productivity” (Obama, 2015).
You will rarely hear me say this, but I agree with President Obama. Having tech jobs go unfilled or filled by immigrant workers on a temporary visa hurts the whole economy and country, especially long term, as these workers will eventually return to their home countries, taking their experience and skills with them. We need American workers in tech to remain competitive globally, and that means supporting the 49% of the population that actually has the desire and aptitude to enter STEM fields, and take these jobs in the first place.
Of course, the problem is that the takeover of colleges by women (regardless of how rigged the game is), is seen as a great Feminist accomplishment. In fact, the politically correct solution is to throw even MORE money at women in order to encourage them to enter STEM rather than simply give support to the men who would be better able to do it themselves (Koebler, 2011).
This is how societies commit suicide through Feminism. They try to make women and men equal by tearing men down, and then wonder where all their skilled labor went. STEM has been routinely identified as a key indicator of economic growth (Katsomitros, 2013), and women are not up to the task.
An article from the Chronicle of Higher Education contains the following telling quote:
“We have strong increases for international students, which is good because if we didn’t have strong enrollment from abroad, some graduate programs would be faltering, but there are some particular concerns about where declines continue to persist for U.S. students. We are seeing a widening gap between U.S. and international first-time enrollments in engineering, math, and computer science” (Patton, 2013).
This is the cost of pandering to women in college: Economic suicide.
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Excellent sources. It’s powerful to see all relevant data in one neat spot. I love that you’re writing for Shedding of the Ego, TFM
I love that I’m writing here too. I have the utmost respect for Barbarossa, and I’m honored to be part of the team.
Student loan debt is over 1 trillion. The majority of which goes to women. We know the govt will write it off. But I wonder what differences (if any) between genders they’re will be with regards as to how it is handled.
After that, it would not suprise me in the least if female dominated courses are directly subsidized. Not sure if Ill laugh my ass off or shake my head in dismay?
Aaron, if they write off $1 trillion in debt it will most certainly lead to hyper inflation, in that the government will likely print the money to pay off investors. They may do this, but not without terrible and perhaps unimaginable consequences.
CS MGTOW
I don’t think they’ll write it off, it’s too much money. They’ll have to raise taxes (on men).
Hey TFM, superb post. I have been thinking of scripting a video looking at the global recession and why its very difficult to get out of recessions with the current workplace structure. Specifically that a significant percentage of current jobs the labour market consists of unproductive job. The sheer number of administrators, liberal arts type jobs which exist as a result of excess wealth creation seem to now be the only jobs going. Quite simply women ‘earning’ the majority of degrees harm us all, its not PC to say this. In the same way that the influx of women into the medical field has lead to a chronic shortage of doctors as women take of time for maternity and about half never return to full time patient care.
Exactly. Egalitarianism wastes money and undermines growth by tearing men down to benefit women that can’t measure up.
THE MALE PILL IS COMING… June 15th 2015 top story on google news!!!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-health/11646385/Contraception-Male-Pill-is-coming-and-its-going-to-change-everything.html
The women’s movement is/was about:
1.) Destroying the Patriarchy (forcing the redistribution of wealth and power from men to women).
2.) Women’s sexual liberation from men.
3.) Women’s liberation from the slavery of marriage.
Obama on the economy:
1.) You didn’t build that.
2.) Fundamental transformation.
I’m unmarried, child free and loving it. Thank you Obama and feminists. The unintended consequence is the liberation of men. With each woman that opts to remain single and opts to remain unmarried, one more man is saved from divorce rape.
Once upon a time, a prince proposed to a princess. The princess refused. The prince lived happily ever after. The end.
Where’s the ego being shed?
Here:
http://www.returnofkings.com/64616/why-men-going-their-own-way-is-no-way-for-men-to-go
MGTOW are remarkable beings.
I’m devouring your content. You’re a talent…………….
Funny story about Obama, Education, black men, black feminist.
So black women are always complaining that they can’t find any good black(ie black men on their socio-economic level). So Mr. Obama decides to help a sista out by creating a grant to specifically to help black men. But black feminists said no, no, no Mr. Obama. Even though black women far outnumber black men on college campuses, they wanted half the grant for black women. And of course they got it.
You know, I did some work on a video last month that I didn’t put out on women and minorities. The basic jist of it was basically the way we treat the phrase ‘women and minorities’ is actually enacted as ‘women ARE a minority.
After reading the OU stats breakdown for myself I really wish I had put it out. My basic contention is that ‘and minorities’ is really just a cover for the most part because in a system like this the goodies if you will go to women who are minorities. I could be wrong but the black community in The States could be the canary in the coal mine here where after school is restructured for girls K-12, after scholarships are heavily slanted toward women and after hiring quotas to help women get hired the women then turn around, look at the men and say, “What the hell is wrong with you guys? You guys are man babies and it’s why I can’t find a good man.”
This is really, really not going to play out well in another decade or so as the post secondary numbers become even more lopsided.
Excellent article.
totally agree. White women are the primary beneficiaries of Affirmative Action, not black people (that it was created for). By grouping women and minorities together, it allows women to hijack the benefit for themselves, while using minorities as human shields.
If you look at the history of Feminism, it’s extremely racist, but Feminists use racism to keep men blaming each other instead of realizing that women are pulling the strings.
Shocking. Disgraceful. And yet well documented and articulated in this article. What an incredible cluster fuck. Wow.
Thank you?
Hey TFM, can you change the SourceFed citation for the APA article they referred to? http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2014/04/girls-grades.aspx
The whole “Not enough people educated in STEM!” is a false controversy being pushed by businesses so they can lower the price of labor.
Good article, but I think the “STEM” fields are emphasized too much. I think it’s better to ditch the term “STEM” as not all STEM fields are created equal when you are talking about economic returns of choosing those majors.
For example, Economics Professor Bryan Caplan’s analysis shows that majoring in Finance or Economics may be better financially than majoring in Math (and Nursing better than Chemistry or Biology, which would belong to “S”).
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2013/04/major_premium.html