{"id":189884,"date":"2024-05-22T19:22:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T00:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/womens-and-mens-college-graduation-rates"},"modified":"2024-05-22T19:22:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T00:22:37","slug":"womens-and-mens-college-graduation-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/womens-and-mens-college-graduation-rates","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s and men\u2019s college graduation rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/womens-and-mens-college-graduation-rates.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two anecdotes and charts: Women\u2019s and men\u2019s college graduation rates.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Anecdote:<\/p>\n<p>I gave an extra-credit assignment in one of my courses. The course had twenty students, eleven men and nine women. Six students chose to do the assignment \u2014 and then I noticed something in my grade book: <strong>all of them were women<\/strong>. Getting all statistic-y about it: 66.7% of the females were willing to do the extra work, while 0% if the men were.<\/p>\n<p>Anecdotal, but fascinating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two anecdotes and charts: Women\u2019s and men\u2019s college graduation rates. Anecdote: I gave an extra-credit assignment in one of my courses. The course had twenty students, eleven men and nine women. Six students chose to do the assignment \u2014 and then I noticed something in my grade book: all of them were women. Getting all [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":716,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}