Rosin's Arguments On Women And Higher Education

In paragraph thirty seven, Rosin 's concerns about women dominating higher education, fails to advocate that men are "failing to adapt" to education after high school. She begins by stating that "women now earn 60 percent of masters degrees" however she does not state what the sixty percent of masters degrees represents. The sixty percent may represent the amount of degrees at one university and who knows, that university may be in a city where trades are more common than careers that require a bachelor degree. Rosin exaggerates that women earn "about half of all law and medical degrees." About half is not domination; it does show that their are a lot of women in those two fields but there are the same amount of men as well. she states that …show more content…
Men do not always lock themselves in a room to play video games and people do not have to be in a study hall to study; In fact, majority of the time study halls are very distracting because of other people and noises. Men may study better at home sitting at the dinning room table or outside, but just because they are not in the study hall does not mean they are not studying as hard as the women are. She then goes on to say that " girls get there degrees with no drama" but she contradicts her self by saying that they "beat themselves up over a B-minus." that does not sound like a drama free path. Berress ends the paragraph by stating that she would be putting her self in a "really small pool" if she were to "deal with [a guy] who did not have a bachelors degree." it sounds as though Berress only wants a man with a bachelors degree; a certificate or masters means very little to her. Rosin took this woman as a misleading representation of all women. Not all women care about a man who has a bacheloers degree, they do not base there love on a mans education. Yes women want a man who can support them but that does not mean he has to have a bachelors degree in order to do that. Men can