Rebecca D. Petersen, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Kennesaw State University has written a fine article about the college gender gap – ever widening in favor of females – for the Georgia Public Policy Foundation. Here is an excerpt:

In an era of No Child Left Behind, it appears as if our nation’s boys are being left behind as the victimized sex in education both within K-12 and higher education. The good news is that this decline can be reversed by specifically targeting males for college, by improving high school graduation rates and by enhancing school achievement at all grade levels.
It’s not turning back the clock for educators to turn their focus on gender-specific education and gender-specific teaching methods. Strategies that help improve the number of males in colleges and universities nationwide will help reverse the trend and move this nation forward. The alternative is a discouraging future for young men, with far-reaching individual, economic, social and national consequences.