Wed 11 Nov 2009
NPR: Do colleges favor male applicants?
Posted by Ronit under Academia, General, Gender & Admissions at 10:37 am
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Print • Email[Gail] Heriot, a member of the US Commission on Civil Rights, says colleges, especially small, selective, liberal, arts colleges are so worried about becoming overwhelmingly female that some may be rejecting highly qualified women to make room for less qualified men.
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frank uible says:
If it is true, then arguably it may be in the name of diversity.
hwc says:
Well, duh!
I guess NPR and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (whatever that is) are just now figuring out how affirmative action works.
rory says:
@hwc: umm, while they are slow to realize this obvious fact, this isn’t “how affirmative action works” in that affirmative action is a publicly acknowledged policy and this gender divide is more of an open secret.
hwc says:
The fact that they talk about it (or not) doesn’t change the underlying mechanism, which involves going as deep into a specific pool as necessary to achieve some desired target enrollment.
In this case, the target enrollment would be something close to a 50%/50% gender split.