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joannejacobs.com - 13 days ago
Affirmative action for males
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With women earning 58 percent of bachelor's degrees, some private liberal arts colleges are practicing affirmative action for male applicants to preserve a gender balance in enrollment. Private colleges have the legal right to discriminate against women, but don't like to publicize it. Now the ...
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