“Colleges Have a Guy Problem” screams the headline over an Atlantic item this week responding to a Wall Street Journal story reporting that if current trends continue, “in the next few years, two women will earn a college degree for every man.”

“The world has changed dramatically, but the ideology of masculinity isn’t changing fast enough to keep up,” Derek Thompson writes. He then quotes Brookings Institution senior fellow Richard Reeves, who adds, “My biggest worry is that by the time policy makers realize that gender inequality in college is a problem, we’ll have hit a point where college will seem deeply effeminate to some men in a way that will be hard to undo. That’s why we need both parties to offer a positive vision of college and a positive vision of masculinity. If male identity is seen, by some, as being at odds with education, that’s a problem for the whole country.”