<p>Hate to post if this thread is dying, but I felt the need to add my two cents. As a woman myself attending a tech school as an undergrad in the fall, I wanted to give a reason why women tend to liberal arts majors- I think they are more concerned than men are with the social impact of their future careers. I, much more than than my male counterparts, say I hope to have a job that can make a serious difference in the lives of those who are less fortunate. Yet, I’m planning to be a physics major, and am plenty ‘smart’ enough to compete with men on an equal standing. If society values invention of material goods and selfish accomplishment over broad changes in the quality of life of a large sector of the population, they can insist that men are more ‘successful,’ but I think that measure of success is hardly useful. In my experience, women want to be able to look back on their life’s accomplishments with complete satisfaction that they did something substantial at the end of their lives. Meanwhile, men may achieve in the business world and promote themselves well enough to be acknowledged as successful, but in the end will they feel they’ve done the best job they can? Are they pleased that they dont have children, or if they do, that they have had little or no part in raising them? Do they feel they’ve made a contribution to the world they live in? I think that’s less likely, and as a result, people can say that women are doing cream puff majors and are not excelling as much as they can be, but it finally is men that are making less fulfilling career choices. The true boy crisis appears to me to be an increasing concern for oneself and less understanding and interest in the well being of society as a whole, which explains why men are on the polar ends of the scale. (elite achiever/jailbird etc)</p>