Recently i kept seeing video and articles pop up saying why less men are attending college. But the thing is, men make more money than women statistically. Does it really matter if they go to college or not. Or is this just a status thing. why keep pushing college id there are alot of other avenues.
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Um, society is not pushing college on men. We are the second rate gender. 60% of college graduates are female. 60 per every 100 vs 40.
Society pushes college on everyone. What are these other “avenues” that you see?
They don’t now.
They already have psy control. You want them to be smarter too? Lol
Why do you bring up men make more money than women statistically? It sounds like you’re framing this as a contest between the two genders? Or, if you mean from a breadwinner perspective? If from the breadwinner view, pretty sure a college educated woman would earn more lifetime than most non-college educated male routes
A college education results in more lifetime earnings, usually, for both genders. So if you want to have more money, that’s usually safer than a non-college route. Some trades (and being a successful business owner) do make more money than many white collar jobs that would require a degree
From a policy perspective, a college educated workforce allows the US to maintain its dominance in the sciences, warfare, medicine, etc etc
>Recently i kept seeing video and articles pop up saying why less men are attending college.
Is it possible you are seeing these video and articles because it’s true? What about this content makes you think college is being “pushed” on men?
Let’s admit there are a lot of worthless degrees like Gender Studies handed out on return for 4 years of tuition.
Why does reddit keep pushing men away from college? Is it because college educated people make significantly more money? Or is it insecure men in their 20s who are temporarily making more money than people in college who forget that life is a long haul?
Men dominate nearly all trades. Men also tend to get degrees that are more lucrative while women tend to get degrees that pay lower, so that is why men make more on average.
When I worked in a school before my current career, it was ridiculous how much they pushed college on students who had no business going to college. Not everyone is meant to go to college, and that’s okay. There are tens of millions of trades openings that pay very well. We should be expanding industrial arts programs in high school and treating it like a realistic path instead of the joke classes.
Society is pushing everyone to go to college. It’s not a good choice for a lot of people, especially right now given the state of the economy and cost of college. The ROI doesn’t make sense for a lot of college students. Obviously degrees in STEM, law, finance, and healthcare are always going to pay well and be in demand, but these are not a majority of degrees earned. The right degrees are not being pushed on students, and we are not treating the trades seriously, so then you get what we have now with a ton of people with insane debt working jobs that don’t require a degree.
There’s a huge uptick now in people going to college, male or female. This is leaving a huge gap in supply of people entering trade jobs that don’t require college, such as plumbing, electrical, automotive, food, trucking, and construction just to name a few. At the same time, many people doing this work now are reaching retirement age.
There are already trade jobs that pay more than people coming out of college with an MBA. Also, starting salaries for many non-STEM fields is much lower. As shortages in these jobs continues, that will only drive pay for this kind of work higher. So it’s not necessary to go to college if a field like this appeals to you.
People malign the trades as something only dumb people and criminals do. The fact is they re-routed many good people away from them. If you are the average guy who goes to college but instead goes to trade, nothing stops you from eventually owning a small business or carving out niche expertise. You don’t need to become someone with a broken body as someone else here implied