Men trail women at tertiary study

Your comment seems to highlight the value of a Victoria Degree these days. Of course, your personal experience may not reflect the sociatal trends. Take a step back & view the situation objectively...

Has anyone compared the number of males vs females learning trades? I think those statistics would tell another story. With the current student loan situation it makes perfect sense to study something practical: the old days where university was the only "intelligent" way to go are long gone: there are many ways to apply your intelligence in business and trades outside of university. I suspect that the men who are learning trades may actually be more clued up than the huge numbers of women waste their time and money going to university.

Congratulations.

Go back and take paper #231 - Cognitive Psych.

Great stuff women!!

Men have been privileged for centuries through access to education, jobs, higher incomes, accumulation of wealth, property ownership, voting rights, and have not borne the full responsibilities of pregnancy and child rearing with sex.

And yet some idiot men in the article and comments section like Dean/Alex/Paul are saying 1 decade of catch-up is not fair!!! I think Paul needs to attend some university classes where he learns about how women have been (mis)treated through history for millennia.

If it wasn't women then Dean/Alex/Paul would be complaining that M??ori are the reason for their underachievement in life.

Make the most of these opportunities women! Educate yourselves, get great incomes, choose to have children (or not) when you want. Gain positions of power. Take control of your lives!! Enjoy the privileges men have had for centuries!

36 year old M??ori male, self-employed Postgrad uni education 400k house paid off Debt free Income 150k p.a

Are the young Men of New Zealand really under achieving in education? Does a Masters in Post Modern Feminism count as an education? ... The young men of this nation would, on average, beat the young ladies hands down in exam situations. Feminist theory of the 60's and 70's was aware of this and took steps to bring 'equality' into society. Women don't marry into equality = more single parent families with the Mother as the primary caregiver = further under achievement of Men in education because there's no father around to tell the son to read. BTW I'm 26, not 66.

There may be more women in tertiary education, but how many of them do mediocre degrees? They look good on the CV, but don't really do much else. When you look at a class of engineering students, you'll find more than 2/3 of them will be males. There is almost the same kind of trends in other faculties such as medicine, its highly male dominated. But good on all the women who are pursuing male dominated roles. There is nothing wrong with a bit of gender balance.

The other factor is trades education, highly male dominated, and many boys are simply choosing this environment when they leave school instead of university study where there is likely to be a massive loan at the end of it all. It depends on the individuals aptitude, whether they excel at theory or technical based studies.

Women whingeing about finding men with degrees, get over it. Some of the most intelligent and successful people in the world never even went to university/college.

This is a world wide problem ,Australia,USA,Britain,Canada etc all having the same trend.In one Canadian University 70% of the medical students are female,most future vets will be women it looks as if this will apply to the legal profession as well. Who are all these highly educated women going to marry.

You might find that exactly the same comment was made by male students when the situation was reversed. It was apparently an "ignorant and uninformed view" shared by a dominant male culture that wanted to preserve its status.

So why does it become OK when the situation is now in the women's favour.

You should open your eyes and see that education has been so changed to suit females and that it does meet male needs which are different.

And another thing: if it's not OK to have comparatively few women scientists, politicians, doctors and CEOs etc etc, then why is it OK (or not worth mentioning) that there a very very few male teachers, especially in primary schools?

It's ironic that any survey that shows women "disadvantaged" to men results in demands for money and action to address the situation.

When its the reverse, the silence is deafening. Surely if there really was a desire for gender equality, there would be calls for something to be done.

And to add insult to injury, when women suffer as a result of this so called "equality" and greater "freedoms" (i.e., binge drinking, promiscuity etc etc), you guessed it there are invariably demands for more money and action to address the situation.

Sometimes I think men need to get as vocal as the women's groups. But then I think at how self-centred, unhappy and uptight some of these young "liberated" women are, I think it's not a bad thing.

The really scary thing about these statistics is that in lower socio-economic communities, the rate of male under achievement in education is appalling. This under achievement combined with traditional low skilled jobs moving offshore, creates the conditions for very unappetizing social problems. Indeed we're seeing them right now in violence, drug abuse, gangs etc.

@ jessica I study at Victoria, and almost all of my tutors are female, probably because there are few males around to do the task. With a female tutor you get a female perspective, and teaching methods that are better for females - especially when the class is mostly female. This is the advantage for women. There's nothing wrong with that but a balance of male/female tutors would be better.

I know many women who won't even consider partnering with a man who doesn't have a university degree (not to mention other criteria). If in the future women graduates outnumber men by at least 3 to 1, then we could be headed for a massive decline in birthrate.