There is a growing gender gap in higher education. According to the latest figures from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, as of spring 2021, women accounted for 59.5 percent of students attending colleges and universities nationwide. Among four-year private colleges, women now account for 61 percent of all students. Both figures represent new records. Douglas Shapiro, executive director of research at the National Student Clearinghouse, told The Wall Street Journal earlier this month that if current trends continue, within a few years, there will be two women graduating from college for every one man. Well, so what? In 1970, men accounted for 58 percent of students attending colleges and universities, and there was no great outcry back then about the gender imbalance. Why should we be concerned now that the pendulum has swung in the other direction? I think there are good reasons for concern, which can be summed up in three words: “educational assortative …
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