Women today are 15% more likely to get an undergraduate degree than men – just one statistic revealing how millions of young men today are struggling to understand how or where they fit in, leading many to feel disconnected.
At first glance one might have thought this was an all-women’s college – 62% of this year’s class are women, a gender gap that has earned Burlington, Vt., a nickname: Girlington.
“We have a bigger gender gap today than we did when we passed laws to help women and girls; it’s just flipped,” said Richard Reeves, a former Brookings Institution senior fellow.
Those numbers leave UVM students Sarah Wood and Maxine Flordeliza pretty skeptical that men are barely treading water.
Von Washington Jr., executive director of community relations with The Kalamazoo Promise in Michigan, said, "Before it used to be, you graduated high school, ‘Goodbye, you’re on your own.’
UVM junior Lucas Roemer doesn’t see it as a sort of affirmative action – putting the finger on the scale for men.
It’s the kind of reaction to the very real problems of boys and men that Richard Reeves says needs to be the rule, and not the exception: "This is not a made-up crisis of masculinity.
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At first glance one might have thought this was an all-women’s college – 62% of this year’s class are women, a gender gap that has earned Burlington, Vt., a nickname: Girlington.
“We have a bigger gender gap today than we did when we passed laws to help women and girls; it’s just flipped,” said Richard Reeves, a former Brookings Institution senior fellow.
Those numbers leave UVM students Sarah Wood and Maxine Flordeliza pretty skeptical that men are barely treading water.
Von Washington Jr., executive director of community relations with The Kalamazoo Promise in Michigan, said, "Before it used to be, you graduated high school, ‘Goodbye, you’re on your own.’
UVM junior Lucas Roemer doesn’t see it as a sort of affirmative action – putting the finger on the scale for men.
It’s the kind of reaction to the very real problems of boys and men that Richard Reeves says needs to be the rule, and not the exception: "This is not a made-up crisis of masculinity.
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