{"id":1327278,"date":"2022-02-22T08:33:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T13:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1327278"},"modified":"2022-02-22T13:38:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T18:38:07","slug":"womens-march-complains-about-women-holding-more-student-debt-gets-math-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/womens-march-complains-about-women-holding-more-student-debt-gets-math-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s March Complains About Women Holding More Student Debt, Gets Math Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwomens-march-complains-about-women-holding-more-student-debt-gets-math-wrong%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1327278&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1194589419.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The verified Women\u2019s March account on Twitter published a tweet lamenting the amount of student debt held by women, but misstated the math in the tweet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWomen hold $929 BILLION in student debt, two-thirds of the nation\u2019s ENTIRE $1.7 trillion student debt load,\u201d the Women\u2019s March tweeted. \u201cThis is a gender justice issue. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\">@POTUS<\/a> cancel student debt and put an end to this crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To start, $929 billion is 54.6% of $1.7 trillion, closer to half than two-thirds.<\/p>\n<p>The implications from the Women\u2019s March are also wrong. The tweet and the group\u2019s history of claiming women victimhood suggest it is unfair that women hold so much debt. In reality, women are doing better than men when it comes to college debt. Women make up 59.5% of all college students as of spring 2021, The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/college-university-fall-higher-education-men-women-enrollment-admissions-back-to-school-11630948233\">reported<\/a>, while men made up just 40.5% of enrollment.<\/p>\n<p>This means that while women make up 59.5% of students, they hold just 54.6% of the debt, while men \u2013 who make up just 40.5% of students \u2013 hold 45.4% of the debt.<\/p>\n<p>There are reasons for this discrepancy, which I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/womens-group-complains-about-women-holding-most-ashe-schow\">wrote about<\/a> three years ago when the embattled #MeToo organization Time\u2019s Up made a similar claim to the one being made by the Women\u2019s March now.<\/p>\n<p>Women may earn more degrees than men, but they\u2019re still earning degrees that lead to lower-paying jobs after college. As I\u2019ve reported numerous times before, nine of the top 10 lowest paying majors are dominated by women, while nine of the top 10 highest paying majors are dominated by men \u2014 and women in large cities actually out-earn their male peers just out of college.<\/p>\n<p>A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/carpe-diem\/2021-update-for-every-100-girls-part-i\/\">chart<\/a> from American Enterprise Institute scholar Mark Perry goes even deeper into the discrepancies between men and women in numerous aspects in life. Perry found that for every 100 women who earn a bachelor\u2019s degree, just 73 men earn one. And for every 100 women who earn a master\u2019s degree, just 56 men earn one. The numbers are slightly closer for doctorates: For every 100 women who earn one, 85 men do.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a deeper issue with the Women\u2019s March tweet, which goes to the issue of canceling student debt. In 2019, The Daily Wire\u2019s Matt Walsh listed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/walsh-six-reasons-why-student-loan-forgiveness-matt-walsh\">six reasons<\/a> why student loan forgiveness is a financially and morally bad idea. One reason why canceling student debt would be a bad idea is because it would allow colleges and universities to continue increasing their prices without improving educational outcomes, as the National Review noted years ago:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>In inflation-adjusted terms, government spending on higher education has never been higher. In has climbed by nearly $2,000 per student (in inflation-adjusted dollars) since 2001. As the Foundation for Economic Education points out, Pell Grant spending alone rose 72 percent in the few short years from 2008 to 2013. Tuition and other expenses have risen right along with that spending, driven mainly by an explosion in administrative costs. In the 1980s, there were about twice as many professors as administrators on our college payrolls; today, that number has been reversed, and there are about twice as many administrators and staff as instructors. Administrative spending has increased substantially relative to spending on instruction \u2014 and both are much higher in real per-student terms.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Canceling that student debt wouldn\u2019t mean the money evaporates into thin air; the cost would be pushed onto people who didn\u2019t agree to pay back a loan and then complain about the cost, such as working-class Americans who didn\u2019t go to college because they couldn\u2019t afford it. It would also be pushed on to the millions who repaid their own student debt.<\/p>\n<p>As Walsh noted, \u201cnobody forced anyone to take out these loans\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>If you have student debt, you agreed to it. You signed on the dotted line. You made a legal arrangement. It does not make moral or logical sense for a third party to enter the picture and say, \u201cYou don\u2019t have to fulfill your obligations and keep your promises.\u201d I know we are way past worrying about silly things like the Constitution, but how does the State even have the Constitutional right to appropriate funds from one citizen in order to fulfill the financial obligations of another?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Walsh also noted that the arguments for canceling student debt could also apply to mortgage, car, credit card, or other debt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re struggling with student debt and you\u2019re handed a get-out-of-jail-free card, and I didn\u2019t go to college but I\u2019m struggling to pay my mortgage, should I not be offered the same deal? If your debt is a public emergency, why isn\u2019t my debt also an emergency?\u201d Walsh wrote.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire\u2019s first original film, Shut In, has made its cinematic debut, being met with rave reviews. The Daily Wire is building an alternative to the leftist entertainment industry, one gripping movie at a time. Join us in this mission and stream Shut In today by becoming a Daily Wire\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The verified Women\u2019s March account on Twitter published a tweet lamenting the amount of student debt held by women, but misstated the math in the tweet.\u201cWomen hold $929 BILLION in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1327278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1327278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1327278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1327278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1327278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}