Anyways, I graduated from high school in 2006. At the same school now, there are apparently multiple/many teachers that are fully accepted by both the guys and girls as being sexist against boys. I doubt this trend is limited to my school and it's concerning as hell.
As far as college acceptance itself, the norm is for colleges to apply a lower admission standard for boys than they do for girls.
The structural issues are elsewhere, such as the emphasis on GPA and the related emphasis on grading for effort without caring whether the student knows the material.
Where are you getting this from? The data and all incentives going female>either>male would suggest otherwise, if it would suggest anything at all.
If you think the data suggest that colleges are overall giving admissions preferences to females in favor of males, you haven't looked at the data.
>girls don't want to attend all-girl schools, so you can get higher overall female admissions by admitting some unqualified boys
This implies either unqualified boys are better attractors, or there not being enough qualified boys. I doubt either of those being true given tournament selection being omnipresent.
>you haven't looked at the data
The data most available shows admission rates to be fairly equal, with far more scholarships for girls in areas they lack presence than the other way around. The data on standards is practically invisible, and I'd be very skeptical of colleges publically admitting to sexism in today's age, let alone sexism in favor of boys. Openly doing so and not trying to change this is asking for a massive boycott.
> The data most available shows admission rates to be fairly equal, with far more scholarships for girls in areas they lack presence than the other way around. The data on standards is practically invisible
So you're saying... you haven't looked at the data, and that's why you're comfortable interpreting what it says.
Solid intellectual effort there.
> If this is public, surely you have some actual sources to verify this?
Indeed! You can find them yourself too, just look for any coverage of the issue over the last 20 years. I can't be responsible for everyone who wants to contradict stuff that's been known for decades. Get your own house in order.
Highly selective colleges that strive for parity must accomplish that by rejecting a few girls who would have gotten in on merit alone, and admitting a few boys who should have been the first ones out.
What incentives are you thinking of? What's the source of your data?
I don't know how they do it legally, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Their researchers apply for grants. That is considered "funding". Enrolling students who have taken out student loans is also considered to be "goverment funding" for the school rather than the student.
Do you have a source for this?
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/20/1681
> in regard to admissions to educational institutions, this section shall apply only to institutions of vocational education, professional education, and graduate higher education, and to public institutions of undergraduate higher education
I say that as a boy who was worse at classwork.
A pull-up competition is a perfectly valid test if the job/program requires exactly that kind of upper body strength.
(2) There is a serious representation problem in primary education, particularly elementary schools. Both boys and girls benefit from having male teachers, boys particularly, since as it is they get the unambiguous message that school is an institution by and for women, one in which they don't have a place. It's bad enough that it shouldn't be thought of "we need to hire more men as elementary school teachers" but "we need to stop hiring women as elementary school teachers".
Please define sexist/sexism. This use doesn't match with my definition.
The measure is an objective one, which is highly correlated to graduation rate and thus pertianate. It's not like this is used to discriminate.
Yes, you could have individual teachers showing bias, but it seems that the data in the article doesn't support this being impactful. I'm actually a little skeptical that bias is rampant given how overbearing many of the school policies have become and an inability to explain grading differences would be highly suspect. I'd expect people to get sued/fired left and right over this if it's truly widespread.
The attribute of being labeled male is not a protected class (maybe legally, definitely de facto) in the same way that of being labeled female is.
To your broader point, disparate outcomes is ipso facto evidence of sexism. At least, that's what our society has settled on for other excluded identities, so we should do the same for men.
"disparate outcomes is ipso facto evidence of sexism."
Lol, no. Again, please provide your definition of sexism, as this does not match the one in the dictionary.
There are plenty of things that are not sexist and have disparate outcomes.
https://mitili.mit.edu/sites/default/files/project-documents...
This has been well studied and is a pervasive, consistent result. However, we don't see the EEOC launching lawsuits against or even studies investigating bias against boys. Can we really say that being male is a protected class if no one bothers to protect it?
I'll look more into this to see if I can dig out an American specific study.
[0] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01425692.2022.2...
If we knew SATs are more predictive of college success for men than women, we'd even be able to simultaneously increase both representation of men in college and overall success rates. That's received a lot less study than other topics in vogue for educational researchers.
Colleges often re-weight both GPAs and test scores based on sex, race, socioeconomic background.
If we look at SAT discrepancies to identify groups harmed by structural issues in the test, we should also do the same with grades.
Bayesian analysis could then be applied to pull the signal out of the GPA data. GPAs can then be renormalized such that students are not incentivized to go to a HS that gives everyone As.