雅思写作：大学是否应该招收同等数量的男女

Universitiesshould accept equal numbers of male and female students to study in everysubject. Do you agree or disagree?

 

In the contemporary world,universities have no sex discrimination against women, but it does not mean to say, in my opinion, that theyshould enroll equal numbers of male and female students to study in everysubject due to unique characteristics of subjects and personal choices.

 

To begin with, the enrollmentof men or women in each major should be dependent on their respective academicperformances and overall abilities rather than some unrealistic percentagequota. Girls usually do not do well in science and thus have little chance ofcompeting against boys in the math department. Similarly, it is hard to findboys studying education, for many of them just do not have the verbal skills orpatience to become qualified teachers. Given the differences in their inherentabilities, it is right to expect boys and girls to have separate academicpursuits.

 

Besides, the naturalinterests of both sexes should be taken into consideration when we approachthis issue. By compelling some girls to study engineering merely to increasethe female percentage, universities are forcing them to work against their natural inclination (违背天性)while denying other boysthe chance of pursuing their real interests. In general, it is as hard, forexample, to persuade male students to learn embroidery as it is to coax a girlto study anatomy(解剖学). Therefore, students should be given the freedom as to whatsubjects they would like to learn.

 

Education being apreparation for their future careers, universities should mark the fact thatcertain jobs are gender-specific. Take most manual work for example. It isphysically unrealistic for a woman to be a construction worker, a plumber or afirefighter. At the same time, men can hardly succeed as nurses or kindergartenteachers. Understandably, gender differences shall be taken into account whilestudents are still in college.

 

To conclude, theproportion of gender in university’s enrollment, in general, is determined bydistinct features of the subjects and personal choices, instead of strictregulations. After all, the true equality cannot be achieved by means ofrecruiting the same number of male and female students in universities.