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The U.S. military has had some trouble lately recruiting young people to fill its ranks but college tuition costs and the decades-long struggle to repay those loans are proving an unexpected boon. As universities and colleges continue to extort their outrageous tuitions, many high school graduates find the military is their only option—and girls are in the forefront. Now a few young women here have found on joining ROTC that “you could be in a leadership position, but that doesn’t mean you have to let go of being a girl”—make-up, hairstyling, and so forth.
These same young women will keep our endless wars going.
There’s a shift of large proportions in what girls and young women are doing in this world. Colleges and universities are faced with the fact that more of their qualified applicants are female, and many graduating classes are more than fifty percent women. We work hard, we stick to it, and we succeed.
This is not what most young men going to college expect. It may even mean that more of the leadership positions on campuses are going to females. One of the old arguments about education for females alone rests on the fact that formerly, or perhaps even now, those positions were more often held by males. I wonder if this is still the case when women outnumber men.
And it’s happening across the board, in schools and offices. Even though the glass ceiling remains uncracked and probably will for a long time (a tiny fraction of CEO’s are women, which may mean we are more likely to save our souls!) and the ERA is still, after generations, a distant dream, women making up a majority in any occupation are certain to shift the discussion.
Will men become an endangered minority?
It seems unlikely. But with suicide and gun violence also adding to the problems facing men, as well as the long after-effects of generations of entitlement, something has to give.
Affirmative action for men? This Supreme Court might consider it.
Drew Faust became the first woman Harvard President and now Claudine Gay becomes the black woman to be Harvard President. Ex-President Larry Summers had said in public that men are better than women in math and science—and largely for saying so he was ousted from his top job and replaced by Ms. Faust. (He is still a chaired professor at the school.) The thrust of your post is to the effect that women are becoming better than men. You may be right, but Rupert Spira maintains there is only one consciousness, that being shared by men and women.