{"id":1091,"date":"2023-03-24T20:14:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T03:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2024-10-29T20:13:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T03:13:59","slug":"study-abroad-why-do-so-few-males-study-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2023\/03\/24\/study-abroad-why-do-so-few-males-study-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Study abroad: Why do so few males study abroad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But one group of students is underrepresented in the surge of undergraduates going overseas: men. <strong>In 2016\u201317, women accounted for more than two-thirds of American students studying abroad, a proportion that has remained constant for more than a decade.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2019\/02\/male-students-studying-abroad\/583828\/\">Why Are So Few Male Students Studying Abroad? &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Women dominate in college education &#8211; 56% of students are female. That is a little part of it but not the main component.<\/p>\n<p>One thought was more guys study STEM where it is harder to study abroad and complete in 4 years. But per the NSF, a majority of STEM majors are women (just over 50% &#8211; this also depends on the definition of &#8220;STEM&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>The next thought is that men exist within stronger on campus peer groups &#8211; and while women also have peer groups, women are more comfortable leaving their peer group behind to travel abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Many abroad programs are run during the summer, but researchers say many men prefer to use their summer for internships.<\/p>\n<p>There are lots of theories as to why women outnumber men 2 to 1, but no one really knows why this is occurring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But one group of students is underrepresented in the surge of undergraduates going overseas: men. In 2016\u201317, women accounted for more than two-thirds of American students studying abroad, a proportion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-study-intern-abroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}