This is a pretty sad statistic I came across recently. According to a recent study, young women leave college with less self-confidence than they had when they started:
The study, administered by the Office of Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment at Boston College, examined two surveys: the first of which was taken by students during their freshman year, and the second of which was taken by students exiting their senior year.
Despite reports of high academic achievement, most female students gave themselves weaker self-evaluations in the second survey.
The article/study above says nothing very revealing about the cause of this lack of confidence in college girls. But, I suspect it has something to do with the vastly unequal outcomes men and women typically experience in today’s college Hookup Culture.
But you won’t hear that from a left-leaning academic at BC.
The academic left is firmly committed to the doctrines of sexual liberationist feminism–evidence be damned. They would never admit that our promiscuous sexual culture has a disproportionately negative impact on young women. They have too much vested politically in the myth that there is no significant difference between men and women in the first place.
Admitting that the hookup culture isn’t working out so well for young women today looks too much like admitting weakness to feminists. Although, in reality, it’s nothing of the sort.
So liberal academics will go on doing these kinds of studies about gender issues, self-confidence, etc… eyes half closed all the while to the sexual brokenness of this generation.
Nathan Harden is editor of The College Fix and author of the book SEX & GOD AT YALE: Porn, Political Correctness, and a Good Education Gone Bad.
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