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The overall gender imbalance in American higher education is now just as bad as when Title IX was first implemented, only in the opposite direction.

What's interesting is this is deliberately excluded from many metrics of gender inequality, eg the UN defines inequality as "fewer women in college than men" so even 100% women and 0% men would be graded as "more equal" than 51% men and 49% women. Pretty Orwellian.

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> eg the UN defines inequality as "fewer women in college than men"

Do you have a reference for that definition? I can't find it.

Sorry the one I'm thinking of is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Gender_Gap_Report#Criti...

I misremembered World Economic Forum as a part of the UN but it's a separate agency.

But many reports have that bias. For example a report on gender inequality in European Union makes no mention of multiple EU countries conscripting only men.

Women in a lot of places are barred by legal or cultural methods from going into higher education in a way that men just aren't. Especially in the US less men go to college but they definitely aren't barred from it in the same way. This isn't to say that specific interventions targeting young men aren't important, just that it's not really the same concern at all.

I'm sure you can produce a link to that Orwellian metric's definition somewhere, right?

Sorry the one I'm thinking of is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Gender_Gap_Report#Criti...

I misremembered World Economic Forum as a part of the UN but it's a separate agency.

But many reports have that bias. For example a report on gender inequality in European Union makes no mention of multiple EU countries conscripting only men.

Look for the Global Gender Gap Report of the World Economic Forum, it uses exactly that metric.

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