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Are Men the New Minority? 男人是新的少数群体？ Businessweek September 29th In the spring of 2010, a group of academics gathered at Wagner College in Staten Island, N.Y., to propose a new field of research: “Male Studies.” Not to be confused with Men’s Studies, which has been around for more than two decades, Male Studies is founded on the premise that men are now disenfranchised, and women’s success has come at their expense. Sound counterintuitive? It may be. But those backing the proposal have some solid statistics behind them. For starters, since 2000, women have represented about 57 percent of enrollment at colleges in the United States, they consistently outperform males in high school, and are now earning more Ph.D.s. Taken at face value, it sure seems like something’s wrong. But is it correct to assume that the imbalance indicates discrimination against men? Or is it the other way around? In 2006, Jennifer Delahunty Britz, an admissions dean at Ohio’s Kenyon College, caused a stir when she wrote in The New York Times apologizing to female college applicants for routinely rejecting them in favor of their less-qualified male peers. Kenyon is far from alone: at Northwestern, the acceptance rate is 26 percent for women and 34 percent for men; and at the University of Richmond, the admissions rate for males is 13 percent higher than for females. But despite probes into discrimination against women, it’s groups like those gathered at Wagner—who believe that it’s men who get the short stick—that are the most vocal about gender imbalance on campus. The folks at Wagner are quick to say that women are keeping mum because drawing attention to the issue would be tantamount to declaring victory for women’s rights. With boys continuing to fall behind, and the recession claiming more men’s jobs than women’s, the subject has been getting increasing attention. But its sources and solutions remain hard to pin down. Leonard Sax, the author of Boys Adrift and Girls on the Edge, believ