martyp
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Since I ER'd a couple of years ago I have taken classes through our university's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and I've put on a couple of classes for them as well. The classes are held during the day and the member population is basically 50+ yrs old. We have 1600 members.
We have been trying to make sense of our demographics which is:
1600 members
70% women/30% men
80% of the men are married
90+% white
I suspect that many of the married men are spouses of women members but I don't have those stats.
We've been told that nationwide (and maybe worldwide) that Lifelong learning programs similar to ours are typically 75%women/25% men. I guess I would exclude learning through the workplace such as technical and management training. I think we are talking about 50+ and retired people.
Does anyone have any thoughts about what accounts for the skew between women and men? And then, of course, race is the next big question.
The classes are taught by university professors and grad students or experts in a field (such as music, dance, opera, etc). There are no grades but the content is substantive and geared toward a the general population. It's a well traveled population so there are classes on different cultures.
Do men just have other things to do? Are women just joiners (as my DW suggests)?
We have classes such as:
Paleontology (one of my classes)
Cases before the Supreme Court
The Obama Presidency
Latin American Cinema
Burma/Myanmar
Personalized Medicine
Reading Moby Dick
We have been trying to make sense of our demographics which is:
1600 members
70% women/30% men
80% of the men are married
90+% white
I suspect that many of the married men are spouses of women members but I don't have those stats.
We've been told that nationwide (and maybe worldwide) that Lifelong learning programs similar to ours are typically 75%women/25% men. I guess I would exclude learning through the workplace such as technical and management training. I think we are talking about 50+ and retired people.
Does anyone have any thoughts about what accounts for the skew between women and men? And then, of course, race is the next big question.
The classes are taught by university professors and grad students or experts in a field (such as music, dance, opera, etc). There are no grades but the content is substantive and geared toward a the general population. It's a well traveled population so there are classes on different cultures.
Do men just have other things to do? Are women just joiners (as my DW suggests)?
We have classes such as:
Paleontology (one of my classes)
Cases before the Supreme Court
The Obama Presidency
Latin American Cinema
Burma/Myanmar
Personalized Medicine
Reading Moby Dick