Saturday, 6 February 2010

Girls outnumber guys on US campuses

Marginal revolution draws my attention to a report in the New York Times which reports that the sex ratio on many U.S. campuses is around 60/40 and rising.

According to the paper there are predictable consequences

North Carolina, with a student body that is nearly 60 percent female, is just one of many large universities that at times feel eerily like women’s colleges...Needless to say, this puts guys in a position to play the field, and tends to mean that even the ones willing to make a commitment come with storied romantic histories. Rachel Sasser, a senior history major at the table, said that before she and her boyfriend started dating, he had “hooked up with a least five of my friends in my sorority — that I know of.”

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