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The Dropout of Men
In the span of just a few decades girls and women have not only caught up with boys and men in the classroom they've blown right past them. Half a century ago there was a gap of 13 percentage points in the proportion of bachelor's degrees going to men compared with women today for every three female college students that only about two men. The trend worsened during the pandemic college enrollment as a whole declined in 2020 but that decline was seven times greater for male than for female students.