{"id":7728,"date":"2009-12-08T12:45:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T20:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=7728"},"modified":"2009-12-08T12:45:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T20:45:52","slug":"whos-in-the-know-women-surge-men-sink-in-educations-gender-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/12\/whos-in-the-know-women-surge-men-sink-in-educations-gender-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Who’s in the know: Women surge, men sink in education’s gender gap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Globe and Mail: Who’s in the know: Women surge, men sink in education’s gender gap<\/a>
\nFemale students are dominating campuses, a shift that will change ‘who does what.’ But leaving men behind has its costs<\/p>\n

In a red-brick building at the University of Guelph, where veterinarians have been schooled for the better part of a century, a demographic shift is taking place that offers a window into the future of human behaviour.<\/p>\n

In the past decade, Ontario Veterinary College has seen its student numbers turned on their head: Women account for more than 80 per cent of its students during that time, and now make up more than half of the province’s practising vets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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