I'm a new user of italki and this is my first notebook. The concept of equal rights regardless of vocation,race and sex has long been advocated and valued. There are some people proposes that universities should enroll equivalent proportions of male and female students on all degree courses, which I think, is completely inapplicable. This proposal is meant to close the gender gap in terms of accessibility to university places. Despite its good ends, a draconian and rigid imposition of a 50/50 balance in selection procedure based on gender is likely to undermine but benefit gender equality. For example,a certain number of university subjects which are traditionally dominated by males,such as engineering and computer science,would be barred to a competitive male applicant since a certain number of class allotments were reserved for female students. This would therefore result in unfair competition among candidates in both sexes,which reflects gender inequality in essence. In addition,this proposal is simply unrealistic to enforce in practice.Due to the instinctive traits of each gender,some university courses tend to enjoy greater popularity among one gender than the other. For instance,those liberal art specialties(e.g.literature)would attract more female students,in this case, applications from the opposite sex would be relatively inadequate. Therefore,universities would have a limited range of choice in male applicants and find it difficult to fill those couses with equal proportions. In my opinion, The turely feasible way to ensure that men and women have equal educational opportunities towards admission to university may lies in basing the selection of college students on qualifications such as academic performance and grades achieved at school. In conclusion,having the same number of men and women on all degree couses is unfair and impractical. And what univesities are supposed to do is to concentrate on qualifications when selecting applicants.