The survey was a lark, something most Tulane students saw as an icebreaker more than an important service. (The way schools report gender may not yet reflect many students’ nonbinary understanding of it, but the overall trend is clear.) (The rising sophomore class at the University of Vermont is 67 percent female; the University of Alabama is 56 percent female.) and almost closed the gap on the SAT.That young women are better prepared to excel in college helps explain why more of them apply in the first place. “These guys are genuinely lost,” says Reeves, who recently founded a think tank, the American Institute for Boys and Men, to focus attention on the issue.

Source: New York Times September 14, 2023 00:22 UTC