They were promised they would have a life of hope and prosperity if they concentrated on their education. That promise came from our country's expectations.

Women have a rights. Let's start there.

Women have rights to birth control as a means to achieving their life goals. They have a right to an abortion when strategies to prevent pregnancy fails.

A uterus is a management issue, not a procreation issue.

If you want to worry about procreation, take it up with the church, not the government.

February 21, 2013

By Allie Grasgreen

The facts of women being more likely than men to go to college, (click here) perform better academically, and major in fields other than science, technology, engineering and mathematics are mostly attributable to factors affecting students before – in some cases, long before – they enter the halls of academe. But that doesn’t mean colleges can’t do anything to mitigate the consequences.

Those are the conclusions of the authors of a new book, The Rise of Women (Russell Sage Foundation), about how and why female students continue to outpace their male counterparts in education (yet still can’t seem to earn a comparable paycheck).

“We’ve seen astonishing change over a very short historical period,” Thomas DiPrete, the book’s co-author and a sociology professor at Columbia University, said on a call with reporters Wednesday.

Starting with the people born around 1950, the rate of men’s bachelor’s degree completion stopped growing, and it stayed stagnant for years. In 1970, 20 percent of men and 14 percent of women finished college. By 2010, women’s graduation rates had “skyrocketed” to 36 percent, DiPrete said, while the rate among men grew only seven points, to 27 percent.

Today, women outpace men in college enrollment by a ratio of 1.4 to 1....