The Great Feminization of the American University

A response to Heather Mac Donald’s provocative new essay on the “mass nervous breakdown on campus.”

My Manhattan Institute colleague Heather Mac Donald has published a provocative new essay in City Journal, titled “The Great Feminization of the American University.” Mac Donald begins by pointing out that women now constitute the ruling majority on campus: 75 percent of Ivy League presidents, 66 percent of college administrators, and 58 percent of rece…