"scarce" resources, college and sexism

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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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The more women go to college and the fewer men do, the less relevance college education will have in our society. Even if we eliminated male favoritism, that would be the case.

I disagree, unless by "male favoritism" you mean something different than I think (possible).

What I see (speaking as the mother of two girls, one in college and one in middle school) is boys actively avoiding situations where they might compete with girls and lose. Academic fields in general (with a few exceptions, mostly engineering and the "hardest" sciences) have become areas where girls can excel if they work hard, so boys refuse to work.

The problem is masculinity; so why is the "solution" to make things harder for women?