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My two cents on all of this:
It's good for everyone to have a future, regardless of gender. Setting people up for success means a better future for society as a whole.
Going to college should be seen as the norm, everyone should pursue a higher education because an educated population is a stable, safer, and better population with better long term outcomes, such as retooling your knowledge if an industry dies. Knowledge is power.
It's also more difficult to dupe people who are generally highly educated.
The idea of education being emasculating is bordering on the absurd. Unless people like being in a feudal society.
Tradeschools certainly have their place, and we need more of them. I'd still push for laws that reign in tutuion costs and gouging students through BS dark patterns like bundling an $600 "textbook" (sheets of paper) with a digital code to a shitty HW website and a garbage PDF reader.
Consider hiring more male teachers in gradeschool and highschool. Helps students lacking father figures, and shows students that there are many different paths in life, aside from construction, welding, being a lawyer, etc. Having a nice male teacher can also defuse Andrew Tate types, who are a symptom of incel culture.
Have more fun stuff at college for students- introverts and extroverts alike. Help students find friends. Post-pandemic bonding can be tough. Friends make life better!
I disagree on everyone going to college. An educated populace is important, yes, but that should be done in high school. Tradespeople, for example, don't need higher ed, they need vocational and on-the-job training. I say this as someone whose career field requires a degree for no good reason. We should be teaching more critical thinking at younger ages, and provide higher ed for people who need it (professional colleges like teaching and medicine) or just want it.
In my province they have a bunch of programs where you can specialize in highschool and start apprenticeships while still in highschool. That's the best scenario to me. The province I went to highschool in was just forced generic education and honestly for most people it's just so boring and uninteresting.
People need to be able to pursue what interests them. It's the only way people will want to learn.