"In 2015, 54.1% of tertiary students (university students) in the EU-28 were women", says EUROSTAT. In some EU-States is the percent value much higher, in other lower. That means: in our time the female sex has a lead in education! This is a revolution of education, but many people underestimate the consrequences. This revolution is welcome regarding the well-known historical disadvanges of the role of women in society, traditionally limited by determining her role as mother of children and as housewife in a society dominated by men.
In Europe, and especially in Germany, 30 years ago young women graduated from school with on average much lower qualifications than young men. The changed role of women in Western society led to a process of emancipation, especially in higher education, in which in a pronounced educational advantage of the female gender today is obvious.
Accordingly, the proportion of school leavers in elementary school without any school-leaving qualification is significantly higher among boys than among girls. The proportion of female students who become scientists or engineers has also increased significantly. Since young women have to make a more difficult decision than men with regard to the question "career or family?" because of the children to be expected after marriage, the answer to this question is quite complex. It also shows new social risks: Particularly with regard to the fate of a larger number of young men who, with little education, have little chance of advancement.
A discussion about this in RG can bring new insights.
I wonder why such a question doesn't arouse sufficient interest to get some supporters to discuss it. In any case, the statistical material is impressive
Dear Hein.
What you says is good news. The europe-wide lead of the female gender over the male in higher and academic education is a way of, say, making justice to women. They have been highly undervalued since ancient times. Time is ripe to end up unjustiable discriminations between men and women. As women tend to be more concerned than men with an ethic of care and responsibility (see, for this respect, Caroll Gilligan's work), is it likely that when women had a lead, for example, in the political and educational domain, there will apear a more just and peaceful world.
Best regards,
Orlando
Dear Orlando, thanks for your friendly answer, yes, it is a message of satisfaction, also for me. But in some respect I am a little unrest or unsteady. The statistically slight superiority in the mass plays also a role in my own family. I have nine no adult children with own families, and a retrorespect view on their school fate has the result that the four boys at the average had more dfficulties with school marks, although all of them reached the entrance conditions for university. As far as I know the sissors of better female marks is not visible in primary school but with beginning puberty, so that girls cope problems of this phase better than boys, I assuime.
Best regards, Hein
Dear interested RG user, two days ago I posted an interesting question, this question here - but little reaction. Should we put aside the question, or should we proclaim that the result of EUROSTAT is pure coincidence and that, in reality, as always, men are better at what they do at school?
Hein Retter
Dear Hein,
I do not think that you should put aside your question, nor should we proclaim that the result of EUROSTAT is pure coincidence and that, in reality, as always, men are better at what they do at school. May be the little reaction has to do with the fact that the majority of RG members are men. I think you are going to get more feedback. Let's wait and see.
Best regards, Orlando
I have to correct my statement above, I wrote "no adult", it should be read "now adult".
As societies become more and more knowledge-centred, sheer physical strength is not going to matter as much as intellectual power. This is good news for women as evident from the resurgence we see in all fields and not just in Europe alone but all over the world, in varying degrees. This has serious repercussions to the young man, who will have to come to terms not only with his reduced importance but also with the woman as his boss. I'm of the opinion that this is a change for the better, because the patriarchal governance has only exposed us to two world wars and bequeathed an exploitative ideology leaving the planet on the brink of exhaustion.
Nazir Ali
Dear Nazir Ali,
indeed, you are right, I think, in many aspects. I have now knowledge about devolopement in Asia and other continents. It is not a sharp change, if we see the percentages of the female lead, but such lead exists. Of course this lead will be mitigated by the special female problem unify career with family tasks and childrens' uprearing, there is much help frome the male side necessary to com to flexible roles and society must react with more public institutions of preschool care, and also bringing children to the company (also university if female students are mother). This a growth here in North Europa in the right direction, I think.
Best, Hein Retter
Yes, I think the same. But with both roles, family and career, it is also a way of life with a sense of have to forego something, eitherway. The better the surroundig factors are adjusted - often is this also a financal or economical problem - the better women can render both roles.
Thanks, Hein Retter
I don't know why in many countries and cultures parents prefer to have male children. Girls are much more social thinking and communicating.
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