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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]keep in mind that women make up ~60% of college students overall now[/quote]

Why such a gap? Is this because women don’t want to be plumbers or truckers or soldiers so they are naturally over represented at college?[/quote]

In part.  But that has always been the case. More to do with boys not going to college and not doing a trade but really dropping out or off of life.   Big trend and not good.  [/quote]

I don’t think this is accurate. Male college enrolment has been increasing but much slower than female. Both seem to level off in recent years. [/quote]

+1 The percent of both male and female enrolling in college has been fairly steadily increasing for decades, but it's just that female enrollment increased at a slightly higher rate.  The pandemic disrupted college enrollment trends though.  Also, starting in the next year or so, we're going to start to see more shrinking of the college age population so overall numbers will be lower--so it's important to keep in mind the difference between percent enrolled and total number enrolled if you want to understand the trends. [/quote]

This makes no sense. The percent of both can't increase.  One goes up or one goes down )or stays the same).

Once it was mostly male.  By the 1980s it was 50/50.  Over the last 20 years the percentage of men have been dropping fast.  Not a new or recent trend.  Also we are talking percentages.  It matters not if the population shrinks.  The percentages have been trending bad for a long time.[/quote]

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