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Justice for Men & Boys 
In this country we’ve seen all sorts of institutions become “Universities” . And unlike the Polytechnics and Teacher Training Colleges or FE Colleges they were before they no longer have to adhere to any standards other than their own. So we have a ballooning in the number of “Degrees” and this is generally in those that are both cheap to run and easy to achieve (for the customer wouldn’t be choosing ones they might not succeed in). Now of course the courses that are cheap to deliver are those that simply require reading stuff. All fertile ground for just the sort of stuff referred to here.
Add in the well known traits of young women and their expectations and its easy to see why our innumerable Universities are full of young women. There is of course the traditional reason for going to university, to find a “catch” career minded man and to simply put off the evil day you might have to get an actual job! Then there’s the “loan” a serious thing for a young man who generally expects to get a well paid job through his efforts and with therefore be paying back the loan, not so serious for his female counterpart who expects to have a “nice” job and a partner who pays the lions share of bills and taxes. And then there’s the cultural thing. Its their daughters who are sent off with everything they need and can expect generous help if they find they’re short of something, while their male contemporaries expect and are expected to be independent and not be helped (perhaps an explanation why a very much higher % of male students have part time and summer jobs.
Put simply for many young women the University “market” offers plenty of opportunities for interesting entertainment in undemanding subjects for 3 years or so, putting off the evil day they have to get a job while also bringing them into contact with potential “partners” who generally are more likely to be doing vocationally relevant degrees often in “hard” or “boring” subjects. As the feminists point out these young men are far more likely to go on to higher earnings and be “the good men” that are apparently in short supply. The only real way to reduce the gender gap is to curtail the proliferation of easy and entertaining courses that are profitable to deliver and attractive to females looking for a few years “off” serious life and keen to “bag” a good man.
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Thanks Nigel. In my own case, in 1979 or 1980, I met and later married the receptionist in the Chemistry department where I was a student. I always say I studied Chemistry at one of the three most prestigious universities in the country – Oxford, Cambridge and Reading. Somehow, people always guess correctly, which it was. It’s a mystery, all right…
Steve Moxon points out in “The Woman Racket” (2008?) that the reason so many women study some subjects at uni (e.g. law, finance, medicine) is so that they can “bag” men then (when they have long-term earnings potential, less competition for these men) or later “bag” men who are colleagues / senior to them in employment.
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I, too, studied Chemistry, Mike.
As for the women on the course, whatever brought them there, it wasn’t aptitude for the subject.
This brought huge advantages when I stayed on to do a PhD. The post-grads were now giving tutorials, supervising undergraduate practical laboratories, and marking lab-books. Undergraduate women saw ways in which they could achieve better marks.
I shall draw a discrete veil at this point…
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