Men average about 130 points higher than women on that exam. They are also ahead on the MCATs for med school, the LSATs for law school, and the GMATs for business school. In fact, girls represent the only student population to begin school at a testing advantage, only to leave school at a testing disadvantage. If females are soaring in school, as Christina Hoff Sommers writes, then these tests are blind to their flight. Although women are now the majority of students on college campuses, barriers persist.
Higher education remains incredibly sex segregated.
On one side of the glass wall are the male students, attending the most costly and prestigious college programs. In computer science, physics, chemistry, engineering and business courses, class attendance shows two, three, and even four times more male students. At the graduate level, the National Center for Educational Statistics reports that more than 60 percent of doctorates are awarded to men. It does not take an economist to figure out where universities invest their resources, and which career paths will lead to more economically rewarding futures. Gender based economic differences permeate education.