Mary Beth Marklein (Extracted from "College gender gap widens -- 57% are women", USA Today, 20 October 2005)

"In May, the Minnesota Office of Higher Education posted the inevitable culmination of a trend. Last year for the first time, women earned more than half the degrees granted statewide in every category, be it associate, bachelor, master, doctoral or professional.

Cause for celebration -- or for concern?"

[Ed Instinctively, it is the females who assess, and then choose, the males for their life partners -- not the other way round -- because it is they who are the child-rearers and more vulnerable if they choose badly. It is a fact of life which all research confirms that females generally marry upwards, to males with higher IQs, and to males with higher status and potential earnings than themselves. With middle-skills and middle-incomes decreasing in modern society it is no wonder that girls are now doing better at school than boys in order to get into universities and have a better chance of selecting those males with good economic prospects. (And why there are so many single mums these days is because there aren't enough competent males with decent jobs to go round.) This superior educational attainment of the modern female is neither a cause for celebration or concern but yet another symptom of a dividing society -- a much more fundamental problem in developed countries as remarked in my other posting of today.]