Women outnumber men on campuses

The Detriot News reports on the lack of males on college campuses:

"When you have urban school districts where half the males don't finish," he said, "that's important."

This male-female disparity exists across all racial groups. Among white 18- and 19-year-olds in 2002, women outnumbered men on campus by about 2 percentage points. Among blacks, the figure was 6 percentage points and 5 percentage points for Hispanics. In all cases, the gap widens as the student population ages.

Men in the United States still outnumber women in doctoral and professional programs, but both look likely to change in the coming years. More women than men now graduate as pharmacists and veterinarians. In law, they're neck and neck, while the gap between the genders has narrowed in medical schools nationwide.

At the undergraduate level, 10 percent more women go to college these days than men. Last year that translated into about 180,000 fewer men than women. Multiplied over 10 years, the gap between men and women could be staggering.

The trend will continue until some powerful force will end the trend.Just like in a stock or commodity.Will the trend end when college life is two-thirds female and one-third male?