Universities should accept equal number of male and female students in every subject. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

The amount of

men

that start a subject in a college is usually different than the

number

of

women

. Some people argue that

this

difference is a problem and

thus

an equal

number

of female and male

students

must be accepted in each topic.

This

essay will explain why

this

idea is wrong.

firstly

,

women

and

men

prefer to

study

different subjects, for ,instance more

men

like to

study

STEM careers than

women

while more

women

are willing to

study

arts than

men

.

This

is not in any way something negative, it is just their preferences.

Additionally

, that does not mean that one

gender

is better at a subject than another.

Therefore

, if an equal

number

of male and female

students

becomes mandatory, many good

students

will not be accepted just because of their sex.

On the other hand

, others

students

will start studying a subject just because is easy for them to be accepted because there are too few of their

gender

. In both scenarios,

students

are not studying what they want. In the

first

, the reason for

this

is that they were not accepted and in the

second

they only chose that topic because it was easy to be accepted.

Secondly

, if there is a limit in the

number

of

students

,

then

a better outcome will come from selecting the best

students

regardless of their

gender

. A better student will learn more and faster.

Thus

, turning down female or male individuals to achieve

gender

equality will result in good

students

not being accepted and

therefore

a reduced academic performance. To sum up, there are 2 main disadvantages in only accepting the same

number

of male and female

students

, some of them will not

study

what they want and some good

students

that deserve to

study

will be rejected. These reasons are enough to discard that idea completely.