A while ago I signed up for multiple scholarship sites, since I was returning to school now as a father and husband, and just do not have the money to afford the college tuition. Since I was in need of any scholarships, grants or funds that I could get my hands on as a low single-income family, I decided to sign up for ScholarshipPoints.com…
Well, after registering, then signing up month after month to see if my name was drawn, no luck. I blew it off thinking that it was just my typical lack of luck that I wasn’t winning, but as I got the monthly emails of winners, I kept noticing a trend. More than half of the winners were always female, and many times more than 75% of the awarded scholarships went to women.
So, I decided to make this blog post, in hopes that some others will search Google to see if anyone has talked about their bias. Since the website keeps records of the winners back to 2006, I have created PDF copies of all the winners that they have posted, and linked them to the stats below (male/female award count for each year). You decide for yourself if they are biased against men…
2006
MALE = 1
FEMALE = 1
2007
MALE = 3
FEMALE = 9
2008
MALE = 8
FEMALE = 18
2009
MALE = 14
FEMALE = 23
2010
MALE = 14
FEMALE = 68
2011 (as of April 2011)
MALE = 7
FEMALE = 20
You notice that the percent biased the site is against men has typically gotten higher with each year. At any rate, they are an “Edvisors Company” but other than a simplistic staff listing on the parent website, I could not find any list of board members or people to contact other than the generic info/webmaster link. I hope that someone in a position to do something about this reads this post. There is no possible way this is coincidence, or chance. This is just another roadblock for men, especially white men who already don’t have any options as it is in the scholarship availability pool.
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