Oct 7, 2015 ... Young women are driving the change in higher education.
Another relevant factor in the gender shift, the age of female college graduates'  first marriage, increased by about 2.5 years in the 1970s. Whereas from the  1950s to the early 1970s women had tended to marry a little more than a year  after graduation, by 1981 the median age of marriage for college-educated  women was ...
Mar 28, 2016 ... Many more women than men will be opening acceptance letters and e-mails this  spring and enrolling in college in the fall, in a trend that holds for both institutions  in Massachusetts and nationwide.
Dec 11, 2014 ... Starting with people born in the 1950s, American women have been more likely  to graduate from high school; starting with people born in the 1960s, women  have also graduated at higher rates than men. SOURCE: Claudia Goldin,  Lawrence Katz, Ilyana Kuziemko. “The Homecoming of American College ...
Oct 31, 2014 ... More young adult women than men have college degrees, but a gender pay gap  still exists. (iStockphoto) ... Women are now more likely than men to earn  bachelor's degrees and attend graduate school. Courtesy: ... But around the  middle of the decade, women began to surpass men in college attainment.
More women are graduating from college now than men.