“Women generally prefer not to attend schools where the sex ratio is too skewed in their favor, or an institution where they’re on the very short end of a dating gender ratio.”
So argues Inez Stepman in an essay titled “How colleges undermine men and the American family.”
The essay, along with others about the state of higher education and what must be done to reform it, appears in a new book called “Higher Education in America: It’s Worse Than You Think.” The Heritage Foundation organized the book and its publisher, Encounter Books, provided a copy to The College Fix.
Stepman’s essay is the only one that directly addresses how women’s educational choices shape the culture and future family formation. The imbalance in higher education leads to fewer dating options for women, she told The Fix during a recent phone interview.
“The fact that universities themselves are so disproportionately female…means that there is essentially not a date for everybody in university” even though college is “one of the best times to date somebody,” the senior legal analyst with Independent Women said.
She said “what you end up with is women who are going to college and men who are not.”
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