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I accept that having a Y chromosome puts a hard cap on my career. I went into this with wide open eyes, as I was told in the 80\u2019s that such would be the case. It was perhaps 1989 where it was made clear to me just how the system was working: the hiring committee had to justify in writing why any female (or minority) candidate was not chosen, but could reject any white male candidate without explanation. I promise the gentle reader: I\u2019ve seen nothing since that time to indicate the rules have changed.<\/p>\n

Just because I don\u2019t lament my own knowing choice, doesn\u2019t mean I don\u2019t find the claims by our \u201cleaders\u201d in higher ed that they\u2019re tirelessly working to \u201cfight sexism\u201d anything but infuriatingly insulting. Listening to them say this even as we all know most college students are females nowadays is just adding insult to the insult.<\/p>\n

The bulk of our population goes to college now, so I suppose it\u2019s only natural for the behavior of higher education to be reflected in society. I still think the following detail should be more public:<\/p>\n

Millennial Males with Degrees are Getting Crushed in the Workplace<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Hey, it\u2019s tough to get a job fresh out of college\u2014employers are catching on that a degree doesn\u2019t mean what it used to, and so they want experience\u2026experience that a graduate won\u2019t have because he\u2019s just spent the last 6 or so years sitting in classrooms, learning (bear with me) things that most employers just don\u2019t find useful.<\/p>\n

Now, government unemployment numbers are as much a fiction as anything coming out of the mouth of a higher education \u201cleader,\u201d so you have to read them carefully in order to get any information. A helpful chart puts things in perspective:<\/p>\n

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There are only so many jobs out there, and looking at the above, it\u2019s reasonable to conjecture that higher ed isn\u2019t the only place where \u201cfirst hire females, and then if anything is left over, let a male have it\u201d seems to be the guideline.<\/p>\n

Looking at the age categories, however, it seems this is a newer phenomenon in the workforce. We should be worried, and we should wonder. Most graduates from STEM fields are male, so you\u2019d think they\u2019d be over-represented in hires. We\u2019re told all the time how STEM fields lead to jobs but\u2026there are only a finite number of jobs, and it\u2019s well known that females with STEM degrees are even more preferred (heck, engineering firms which only solicit female employees can even brag of the fact<\/a>\u2026any firm which boasted of restricting to males would be utterly destroyed in the press). If your business is female owned, it gets a distinct advantage<\/a> when seeking business with the most generous customer in the country, our government.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just STEM where the males are getting ignored, and realize this is even more devastating than it looks because more college graduates are female now<\/a>. Even with a \u201cshortage\u201d (to use the phrasing our leaders often use to describe a situation with females) of male college graduates, the above chart suggests an over 2:1 ratio of unemployment for college graduate males over college graduate females. I know, this could be viewed as a victory for feminism or whatever, but when one looks at the previous generations represented on that chart, it\u2019s clear our society is engaging in a new experiment for how it should run.<\/p>\n

This, gentle reader, is a dangerous experiment. Societies which have a great number of unemployed, unemployable males with no prospects, no hope for a future are particularly vulnerable to upheaval by a sub-population which has nothing to lose. Ok, perhaps I worry overmuch here, but the fact remains this disparity would be intolerable if any other \u201cprotected class\u201d in our country were subjected to such obvious discrimination.<\/p>\n

My apologies if I\u2019m quick to see sexism here\u2026but I know that\u2019s how this startling result would be represented if the female graduates were being unfairly targeted for unemployment. The article tries to say something else is at work:<\/p>\n

But what if there\u2019s a deeper, more encompassing problem underlying these circumstances? Is it possible that today\u2019s young men are suffering from a malaise\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Ok, sure, a malaise. Could that malaise be the simple fact that college indoctrination typically involves the males being told about their \u201ctoxic\u201d masculinity? How is this not considered sexist, either?<\/p>\n

\u2026 created by current societal norms?<\/em><\/p>\n

Honest, the societal norm here is that males are second class citizens. I grant this is not the case throughout society, but it\u2019s a common enough norm on our campuses, and the gentle reader needs to understand: our females graduate from these campuses, too, and get the same reinforcement, get the same message that males only should get something after all the females get something.<\/p>\n

Now toss in the scramble in corporate America to have \u201cfemale leaders,\u201d who absolutely can get into positions to strongly influence the hiring (again, I note every time I read of a company boasting of only hiring females, it\u2019s a female making the boast, because that\u2019s where the company initiative comes from\u2026).<\/p>\n

The article I\u2019m quoting from doesn\u2019t allow comments, so there\u2019s nobody to take the author to task for both ignoring the very real possibility of sexism, or for her (of course) shamefully blaming the victims here, the males, for having a \u201cmalaise\u201d which is keeping them from getting hired (seriously?!).<\/p>\n

While I can\u2019t pin this trend precisely on the student loan scam, bottom line is our student loans are huge factor in the skyrocketing tuition, a tuition justified because a college degree is supposed to be helpful for getting a job. I know it\u2019s too much to ask for the universities to return the money they collected under false pretenses, but perhaps we could cancel the loans made to the males for degrees of no value to them?<\/p>\n

Just imagining the crying in the media about how sexist that would be inflames the part of my heart which warms when it considers hypocrisy.<\/p>\n

www.professorconfess.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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