Saving The Lost Boys Of Higher Education Analysis

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Men and woman are faced educational discrepancies, both author Robert B Smith and Mary Ann Baeinnger outline this in their work. Women are leading educationally, and men are slowly trailing behind, this is agreed among both authors. Smith and Baeinnger, both establish that there is a problem but it the authors differ in establishing what the focal problem is. Smith makes the point that men are the main issue, however Baeinnger’s establishes that while women have a track record of academic success in college they are not offered the success post college they deserve. This is a cause of gender role, and the idea that one sex is guaranteed access while the other had to work harder to gain it(Baeinnger 2014 p.256).
Saving the “Lost Boys” of higher education by Robert B. Smith, expresses the need for action to save underachieving males. Smith expresses, boys are indeed without the help they need, and they will continue to decline in …show more content…

2014. P.253). This can lead to the downfall of honest college admission processes. As a result, of the large amount of female students, and the potential college applicants seeking equal ratios of males and females in the campus, causes the applicant selecting processes to be skewed. Many admissions consolers are picking more male applicants, while ignoring the equally qualified female applicants (Smith 2014 p.253).
Women are more successful in an academic environment, but while there is success, there is a lack of women leadership. For Women on campuses, Access Doesn’t Equal Success, these words the hold true for many woman, and Mary Ann Baenninger does a great work in proving this in her work. While differing from, Saving the “Lost Boys” of higher education, Baenninger (2014), uses the text to express how women excel in school, but fail to excel in the business field

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