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The Diminished Discussion Around Gender Disparities in STEM and Higher Education
The discussion around getting more women into STEM and more men into healthcare has decreased due to the stark differences in college admission and completion rates between women and men./nThe completion rate for women in four-year US college programs is twice that of men and seven times more men dropped out of college during COVID than women./nThe push to get more women into higher education appears to have fallen by the wayside in recent years./nHistorically, girls have always liked school more than boys according to a long literature on kids' liking of school./nGirls are more easily able to adapt to the school environment than boys.