Education

OPINION: Too many young men are missing from college campuses like mine

From The Hechinger Report: “If women now outperform men in high school and apply to college in greater numbers, isn’t that just a tribute to their grit and determination? Yes, but there are consequences to the gender gap for all of us… The workforce shifts driven by global trade and artificial intelligence have hit men particularly hard. No longer can young men assume the availability of blue-collar jobs with pay sufficient to support their families. (Women rarely had those opportunities in the first place.) The understandable anxiety and resentment over these seismic shifts have fueled our political divides and disrupted our progress in gender equality.”

View the full article from The Hechinger Report.