Why do the parents of girls care so much?

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These percentages make no sense. Male, Female and what? Household pets?

It is a percentage of possible students age 18 to 24. Not the percentage by gender of actual students.

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'Rate' is the key word. The schools accepted X percent of male applicants and Y percent of female applicants. And Y increased significantly over the years.

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enrollment rates

1972 Males- 39 %
Females 21.2 %

2012 Males 37.6 %
Females 44.5 %

Wonder what creature fills out the remaining %

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A real simple solution would be for the forum to have two high level folders - girls and boys. That would stop much of the takeover on cross over topics.

To be a top female soccer player in the US means something globally. The path is club, to top college, to USNT. If this level is attained, it means you are one of the top female soccer players on the planet.

To be a top male soccer player means next to nothing. The best US men are bench players in top leagues. It is meaninless globally.

The best female athletes play soccer in the US. The best male athletes rarely if ever play soccer.

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Wonder what creature fills out the remaining %

For goodness sake, it's a rate!!!

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To be a top female soccer player in the US means something globally. The path is club, to top college, to USNT. If this level is attained, it means you are one of the top female soccer players on the planet.

To be a top male soccer player means next to nothing. The best US men are bench players in top leagues. It is meaninless globally.

The best female athletes play soccer in the US. The best male athletes rarely if ever play soccer.

Well except the rest of the world is now playing the women's soccer. The ugly boot and hope game with female linebackers doesn't cut it now.

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Well except the rest of the world is now playing the women's soccer. The ugly boot and hope game with female linebackers doesn't cut it now.

The US WNT is ranked #1 by FIFA. They are doing something right.

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For goodness sake, it's a rate!!!

You are really stretching the stats. In the early 70's private schools were just starting to enroll women. Obtain the actual enrollments and get back to us.

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Of course there isn't any discussion , they would like to keep it under the radar. You don't add teams and programs without an increase in cost. I didn't say it was significant, just a contributor. Colleges are bending over backwards to accept women, and have expanded " women's studies" into many areas bordering on the ridiculous. The soccer industry has taken notice, and responded with leagues like the ECNL.

What Athletic Departments don't want' to talk about is the extraordinary costs of running a Football program. They, I would imagine, be be more than happy to talk about the paltry sum required to run a Women' soccer program.

Also women have been outperforming men academically for years with the exception of STEM fields. Even there the gender gap in Math SAT scores has been narrowing. Universities don't have to bend over backwards for women as they get better grades on average than men. If anything efforts are being made to help boys better succeed in school at all levels (kindergarten up).

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You are really stretching the stats. In the early 70's private schools were just starting to enroll women. Obtain the actual enrollments and get back to us.

Who are you talking to? I didn't post the stat but I do understand that the number for rate of enrollment by gender are not supposed to add to 100.

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Noone cares about women's soccer except their families and families with girl soccer players.

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Noone cares about women's soccer except their families and families with girl soccer players.

There is a difference between no one and no one you know. I have two sons and no daughters. My family and I go to Boston Breakers multiple games a season and I am not the only guy there without a direct girl soccer connection.

If you are uninterested your loss. To me that makes you uninteresting.

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Parent of 4 girls here. Interesting thread. I would say it is because from what I have seen so far, soccer and possibly basketball are the only two sports open to girls in which the girls are pushed to be aggressive and exhibit physical play if they so choose. They haven't been 'dumbed down' for girls like, for example, lacrosse. Girls don't have access to sports like football, softball is around but let's face it, it doesn't compare to baseball-you have to really look for competitive softball around here.

As girls get older there are opportunities for things like tennis, rowing...but soccer for my girls was a way to get them onto a team sport that kept them active and allowed them to show some aggression. My oldest was a complete wuss before she started playing soccer. She cried at the drop of a hat. Now, she is confident and self assured and doesn't let people push her around. She is smart, and has the benefit of the team experience with all of its pluses and minuses. I'm not after this for college money. I'd be better off putting the money I'm spending into her college fund. We're in it for the experience. My next oldest said, "I'm not a soccer player, I like softball better". So, we are looking for opportunities for her to play more softball., there are club softball teams but it is just starting to grow where I live.

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And to edit my above post, I'm not trying to create crazily aggressive children. The point is that it is ok for boys to by physical and aggressive in sports, but not as promoted for girls, who are often pushed to more traditional 'girl' activities like dance.

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My next oldest said, "I'm not a soccer player, I like softball better". So, we are looking for opportunities for her to play more softball., there are club softball teams but it is just starting to grow where I live.

Have your daughter check this out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PypphWjEgUc