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Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women

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Re: Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women

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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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You are implying there is. What is wrong with men today according to you?

Re: Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women

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I think The Last Psychatrist wrote, when women move in, it's a sign that power has moved on. [Edit] Found the quote: "when more women enter a field, it means less men did, and if the men stopped going there, where did they go? [...] I don't want to be cynical, but boy oh boy is it hard not to observe that at the very moment in our history when we have the most women in the Senate, Congress is perceived to be pathetic…

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Re: Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women

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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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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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She wants to win, and winning in this scenario does not involve pandering to the more extreme elements of the party. You need to win to actually achieve anything.

The reality is that the more extreme elements of her party are not actually that popular.

Re: Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women

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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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that pretty misadrenistic thing to say

let have a look and reverse genders in your example.

>>> Why are majority students men not women

>> perhaps there's something fundamentally wrong with women today? I'd look there.

hmmm....

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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And this is how we get trump as president.

"Oh, Hillary is not a PERFECT candidate, I'm going to punish the Democratic party because of it and vote for Trump".

Or, one of my favorites,

"Those jerks, they totally passed on Berny! I'm going to vote for Trump!"

Idiots that vote against their (and everyone else's) own interests just because they can't have THE PERFECT candidate is why things are such a mess right now. Always letting PERFECT get in the way of BETTER.

Re: Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women

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I think The Last Psychatrist wrote, when women move in, it's a sign that power has moved on. [Edit] Found the quote: "when more women enter a field, it means less men did, and if the men stopped going there, where did they go? [...] I don't want to be cynical, but boy oh boy is it hard not to observe that at the very moment in our history when we have the most women in the Senate, Congress is perceived to be pathetic…

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Re: Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women

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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.

> 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.

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