Reply #35: Not true.

[Hello_Kitty]

There are still blue collar jobs to be had that don't require a degree. While more women are going for them, they remain male bastions. Women know that they need at least a Bachelor's to obtain a job that pays a decent salary. Boys aren't being "left behind" at all. More men attend college now than at any time too but the ratio is scewed because many more women are enrolling. This is an example of statistics being used to invent a "problem" where none exists. Funny how decades ago when colleges were 90% male no one was fretting over girls being shortchanged.

Katha Pollitt has a good take on it in the current edition of the Nation:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060130/pollitt