Gender Gap Widening In Colleges

Although USA Today report suggests that the gender gap on campus is stable -- about 57% female and 43% male -- not worsening but infact its widening and getting worse.

Some reports predicts that it would be 59% female and 41% male by 2018. The reasons for this decline are many and quite opposing. Lets first start with reasons favoring women achievements and their higher proportion in graduate degrees.

Historically, majority of the women were not provided equal  oppurtunities to get primary education let higher education alone. Education was deeply connected to earning and is still very much related to earning till now although earning is not the only objective of education. In the twentieth century, ground realities plus mindset changed and women were given more chances to educate themselves and earn independently. If I am asked to mention a single event that provided an oppurtunity to women in US to get a big share in jobs then i can name First World War without giving a second thought. Males were forced to join the army and women were forced to join the labor force to keep the earning wheel running. They also got the right to vote for their hard work and sacrifice to earn and take care of the house in absent of young men. 

Although males want the reports from different departments to be broken down in different fields but no break down of degrees can change the fact that women have achieved a milestone which is going to stay in near future.

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