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White Males Studying Less?

Between the Sexes

Jacqueline King is a researcher who carefully sifts data for the American Council on Education in search of trends that colleges and universities might find helpful. One recent discovery jumped out: Over the past eight years, the percentage of middle-class males on campus shifted dramatically downward. Even more surprising, the sharpest drop occurred among white males. Among college students younger than 25 and from families earning $30,000 to $70,000 annually, half were male in 1996. Last year, that dropped to 43% male. To a data expert accustomed to the drip-drip of annual changes, that's the sound of a waterfall.
Ref. https://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20051228/...betweenthesexes

Less Studying Males White

This is absolutely no surprise to me. I am in graduate school and I am lucky if there is ONE male per 20 females. I have one class presently that is 23 students. ONE is male. Out of the five classes I had last semester, I believe there was only one male in all of them. Where are the boys going? Are they all joining the military or getting jobs right out of high school? I know that when I first started college that there were a lot of women because it was the early nineties and women were starting to go back to school to get better paying jobs; going to classes when their kids were at school and when their husbands could take the kids in the evenings.

Maybe we should make a poll of the men in our community here. How many went (or are going) to college?