rm ([personal profile] rm) wrote2009-03-31 10:26 am

"scarce" resources, college and sexism

And then there's this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/23/opinion/23britz.html

It's the sort of thing that makes it hard for me to imagine any world in which women, at least as a group, don't always lose.

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[personal profile] sethg 2009-03-31 03:04 pm (UTC)(link)
One theory I've read is that men are more likely than women to be able to get a middle-class income without a college degree[*] and therefore they are less motivated to apply.

[*]...or, they are more likely to get an upper-class income without a first-tier college degree.