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YOUNG WOMEN ARE DOING MUCH BETTER AT EDUCATION THAN YOUNG MEN

There’s a fair amount of discussion about this among U.S. academics….with a strong contingent holding that this really doesn’t matter much. In fact, there are some who seem to think it’s a good thing that girls are “getting a little back” on the boys, who were somehow favored in the patriarchal past.

A very short-sighted view, it now appears (confirming common sense, I’d say.) In eastern Germany, there is a growing shortage of women—in many towns only 75 for each 100 men, in a few it’s down to 40 - due to the emigration of the young females to more promising locales in the west.

It is a vicious spiral. Girls are more studious than boys, so they get better qualified and migrate west to find both partners and jobs. The boys lack role models at home, where fathers are often unemployed, and at school, where teachers are mostly female. Young men now account for 65% of German high-school dropouts….The study, which combines reportage with figures, tells of frustrated gangs of youths drinking outside supermarkets and sleeping on their loading ramps.

Young, poorly-educated men with no jobs and no particular prospects - either for earning a living or finding a mate who might civilize them. And in whose universe is this not a serious problem? Surely we shouldn’t wait until the situation in our country is as dire as it is in eastern Europe…...

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Hat Tip: Mark Steyn in THE CORNER

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