[hashmymustache]

Not to mention boys have lower grade averages across the country and women make up almost 60% of college students. You don’t have to be a men’s activist to recognize that if those trends were reversed such a disparity would receive a lot of attention with social pressure to recalibrate the learning environment.

[uberman]

Yet somehow men make up the vast majority of senior positions in almost every field including college professors.

[smt88]

Again, I think you can separate these issues and care about both.

Men dominating leadership positions is a problem. Men getting degrees at a much lower rate than women is also a problem.

They have separate causes. It's not like every gendered trend is a tug-of-war with every other issue.