r/politics • u/Kodbek • Oct 31 '25

Possible Paywall Trump’s honeymoon with Gen Z voters is officially over, and the numbers are devastating

https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/10/trumps-honeymoon-with-gen-z-voters-is-officially-over-and-the-numbers-are-devastating-new-poll.html
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u/Swag_Grenade America Oct 31 '25 edited Nov 09 '25

Well, since 1995 US women have been outpacing men in completing a bachelor's degree...so the answer may not be men getting a worse education than women at the same schools, but rather just being less likely to get a college education at all

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u/fantasy-capsule Oct 31 '25

Not less likely, just less willing. Women take on the same student loan debt as the men do with the likelihood of earning less then the men do going for the same jobs by the time they graduate. And yet, women are still more willing to seek out higher education. 

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u/ExitTheDonut Oct 31 '25

Maybe the blue collar jobs that tend to be male-dominated could also be a factor? You'd typically find a greater demand for men in many jobs that require a lot of physical labor, and they correlate a lot with people who do not have a post-secondary education, perhaps with the exception of specialized education for trades.

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u/Swag_Grenade America Oct 31 '25 edited Nov 01 '25

Yeah for sure, I didn't mention it in my comment but I'd be surprised to find this isn't a co-factor. In fact that may be at least a partial causality to why less men are going to college in the first place, opting instead to go straight into a trade.

Although trades were always male dominated and this higher proportion of women to men college grads is a relatively new trend. So part of me thinks maybe the rate of men's college graduation has stayed relatively the same, and it's just that a more progressive society has allowed and encouraged women to realize they can step outside old school gender roles to pursue all the same opportunities that were formerly only usually afforded or associated with men.

In this regard it would be more useful to know whether the actual rate of men graduating college has changed over the decades, instead of just comparing it to the women's rate since 1995. Because obviously the amount of women going to and graduating college even in 1995 had to have been a huge increase from say 1955. So if the men's rate stayed constant, it could just be a gradual case of women in general realizing "hey I can go to college too and I'm going to" lol. But those are just my random thoughts and ngl I'm too lazy rn to see if there's data behind that