Co-Ed Schools Limit Women?Follow

http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/10/04/womens.college.ap/index.html



This seems weird to me.

What do you guys think?

#3 and sorta #1.

Sorry so vague...

Don't see why it's weird. Presumably, the women currently attending that school specifically sought out that school because it's all women instead of co-ed. You can argue the pros and cons of co-ed education all day long, but at the end of the day, it's about choices. Those women made a choice, and now that choice has been changed for them. Kinda like going to the icecream parlor and selecting chocolate icecream, but you get vanilla instead. Now, you may like vanilla just fine, but you chose chocolate, so you'll be upset about it.

Is mud wrestling a sponsored sport?

If I were going to that school, I would probably protest the admission of men as well.

It reminds me of my final women's studies class I took in college. It was the first time that a guy wasn't in the class and it was probably one of the best classes I've ever taken. As women, we felt freer to voice our opinions without fear that the only guy might get offended or grossed out.

I mean, it's nice to go to a class and just concentrate on academics instead of getting distracted by checking out guys.

Well that and if your diploma says Finger Lakes all girls school on it /snicker

Although it does seem archaic and unnecessary to me. The idea of separation of sexes holds a bit of merit in high schools, but people should grow out of it by college.


Whoa, whoa, who.

Stop the train.

Is it your contention that men stop noticing women after high school?


Well, that's just incorrect. I check out every single woman I see. And I MUST devote a portion of my attention to doing so. It's just natural.


I'm not a sexist pig (well, I am, but only on the weekends). I believe a woman's place in the work force is determined solely on her capabilities. I don't have a problem with women in combat, space, or any place, really.

But they're still women. How could they NOT get my attention? I'm not necessarily interested in having sex with every single female I come into contact with (read: oh yes I am), but I still gotta look.

That's just the sort of attention those women who chose to attend an all female college really didn't want to deal with. For whatever reason. Now, that choice has been taken away from them.

It would have been much more politic for the school to announce this decision enough in advance so that students could choose to attend elewhere or finish their degrees before it went into effect.

TS pretty much summed it up.

I also read something about a month or two ago, think it was on Yahoo, about how "they" you know, "they" had done testing on males and females who were in a sexually segregated school, and both girls and boys did better when they didn't have to deal with the opposite sex.

Makes sense to me. Some people, male or female, may be able to disregard what the opposite sex thinks about them in a work or school environment. But for others, the temptation to play, flirt, or make fun of someone of the opposite sex is just too great.

No, I'm saying that after high school, men (and women) should be fully capable (or learn to be capable) of balancing work with a social life. Of course you'll still be distracted by the opposite sex, but one would hope you'd be mature enough to at least be able to handle being in the same room as them.

I mean, if you go to a same-sex high school so you don't get distracted, and you go to a same-sex college so you don't get distracted; what are you going to do when you get a job and *gasp* there's women in the office?

Co-ed schools will always outnumber and be more popular choices than same sex schools. So I don't think this will give us a work force full of people who get flustered once they start working with the opposite sex.

I just think it's good that there's a choice.

And on another note: about all girls' schools... maybe these women are shy, and being around other women and not having to deal with men could help their self-esteem. Or, maybe I have no idea what I'm talking about and it will only make them worse

personally, I wouldn't want to go to an all girl's school. where's the fun in that?

Girl scout meetings, lesbian communes, women's prisons, Oprah studio audience, witch covens, nunneries, etc

All the time!

While I have no issue with single sex education, it seems the school made the choice of its own free will so.. *shrug*. I'm certainly not part of the process to know their thoughts behind switching over.