There is a new trend on the horizon....female dominated professional careers and white collar jobs! "Impossible", you say? Look again!! More and more colleges are reporting that their graduation classes are predominantly female. Many medical and law colleges are accepting larger numbers of women than men. The numbers of women engineers are soaring!! One of the TV magazines (Dateline?) recently did a story on this. High schools are beginning to see girls dominating the leadership roles there and they also are noticing that girls are beginning to pack the "college bound courses" leaving boys to their sports and vocational classes. Some people are so worried about the poor academic performance by young males that they are starting all male acadamies just to empahsize academics. Last weekend when I was sitting through my daughter's college graduation I looked at the numbers. Out of 1600 graduates, approximately 980 were women! Some have even gone so far as to predict a female run society within the next 50 years. Is male affirmative action in our future?? :para2:

While working in the music industry, I noticed more often then not the workers at the head of the line were mostly female. Kind of shocking in a way back then. I wasn't even out of HS yet and being taught that it would be tough to keep up with men, their pay and their promotions.

I think it has a lot to do with women growing up with the idea that they have to "compete" with men. Now that jobs and such are fairly equal (it's almost impossible to get rid of ALL discrimination yet)the females who have had to work 2x as hard (they thought) to get a job are ahead of the game. For years, men didn't have to "compete" for jobs, so they didn't tend to work at it as much. I think it'll all balance out soon enough

I'm against affirmative action, in any form. The highest-scoring students should get the college slots and the best-qualified PERSON should get the job or promotion.

If boys are being edged out, academically, its their own faults. They should WORK HARDER.

Puleeze! That day is far off. It is still a male-dominated society, make no mistake about that.

Deb25: Very true, I agree! There are just some men out there feeling uncomfortable about it, specially those who are still stuck in the old ways. But then again all of these irrate and "so-called" feminist are not helping. They actually have anti-feminist groups out there composed of men, lol.

katl8e, as usual, I completely agree with you.

If the numbers of young men training for professional fields continues to decrease and the number of women keeps increasing....a prediction of things shifting within 50 years might NOT be too out of line. Check the numbers of women in your local colleges. It won't happen tomorrow but it COULD happen by 2053. Compare where women are now to where they were in 1953!!