How Educational Differences Are Widening America's Political Rift

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4. It is a soft discouragement but I have witnessed it since the eighties,

A lot of it is that most programs to help people get into college are oriented towards encouraging woman to get a higher education.

But I think that a lot of it is the curriculum in many public high schools is also oriented towards sending girls to college.

Again, it is a soft thing with no smoking gun. But like severe racial disparities, the lack of a smoking gun does not mean that there is not a problem.

(To use an example reading lists in high school english are heavily oriented towards subject matters that traditional engaged female readers. (You won't find Tom Wolf's The Right Stuff on many reading lists, for example, yet alone a Michael Crichton novel)

College has been majority female for generations now but we still focus on getting woman to take engineering jobs. There is no similar push to get men to try teaching or nursing careers.