A piece in today’s Wall Street Journal reminds us that among African Americans “the gender gap in higher education is widening dramatically, with more women than men going to college.”
The article doesn’t provide numbers, but they are not hard to find. ABC News has reported:
Two-thirds of blacks college graduates are women. Among Hispanic graduates, 60 percent are women. That’s compared to white graduates, with 57 percent women.
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education noted in 2002 that
women earned 67 percent of bachelor’s degrees awarded to blacks. Women earned 69 percent of master’s degrees and 66 percent of doctoral degrees awarded to blacks. They earned 58 percent of all professional degrees awarded to blacks, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s National Research Council.
With such drastic disparities, shouldn’t colleges that proclaim “diversity” is the bedrock of liberal education be providing extensive preferences to black males over black women?
Are they doing so? If so, how much lower are the admissions standards for men? If not, why not?
Just reading up on some of this lately, was interesting.