Do women let men get away with being slackers?
“At Colleges, Women are Leaving Men in the Dust,” blared the front-page New York Times story by Tamar Lewin. It seems that on campus, men are more prone to partying, women to … acing their classes. And these trends, which hold across race and economic lines but are most pronounced within minority and lower-income groups, are now significantly affecting college life across the country. Yes, there are a lot of guys doing well, even exceptionally well, in college. But the trend is otherwise. Women now make up 58 percent of those in our colleges and universities; in some places, their ratio is 2 to 1. They are a majority in graduate schools. And they win most of the places on honors lists. (Yes, men are more likely to graduate from college than they were two decades ago, but socially speaking that’s not the achievement it was two decades ago.) Today, “they (college men) have a sense of lassitude, a lack of focus,” William Pollack, director of the Center for Men and Young Men at Harvard M
