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The Philippine Daily Enquirer

By JOSE MA. MONTELIBANO

Sunday, October 29, 2006

MANILA: Fifteen years ago, a Jesuit confided to me that the Ateneo de Manila University was having great difficulty trying to keep a 50-50 proportion of male and female students. A trend with more females than males passing the entrance exams was already established, and the distortion grew worse every year.

At present, statistics in the public school system show that of the top 10 performers, seven are women. And there are no signs that the distortion will not grow all the worse.

These statistics are not mere academic information; they are very social and behavioural as well.

The effect of females dominating the schools is that women will dominate the areas for which students go to school: the workplace. And those who dominate the workplace will eventually dominate everything else, except those that demand physical strength as the key factor for supremacy.

We are a dysfunctional society that is getting more dysfunctional by the day. When men in Philippine society lag behind in school, they will lag behind in other fields as well.

Poverty aggravates the situation for the men. When circumstances beyond their control deny them the avenue to be protectors and providers for their families, the natural propensity to be dominant or the head of a family finds expression even in destructive ways.