A post on NextDoor.com yesterday called attention to startling data on the gender gap at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Mike Y. shared data showing that far more women are attending UH.

“Women enrollment almost doubles men, across-the-board, full-time undergraduate, and graduate,” he wrote. “Stunning.”

“This shift in educational attainment will eventually reach the workplace. Women professionals will likely outnumber men almost 2 to one.”

I was able to quickly determine that the data came from a university publication, “2023 -2024 Common Data Set, University of Hawaii at Manoa,” prepared by the M?noa Institutional Research Office (MIRO).

I summarized the data in the table below, highlighting the percentage of women in each student category.

Although these data are from the University of Hawaii, they apparently reflect a general trend across the country. Here’s some reading on the issue.

“More Women Than Men Are Going to College. That May Change the Economy,” New York Times, November 23, 2021.

“What’s behind the growing gap between men and women in college completion?” Pew Research Center, November 8, 2021.

“A Wake-Up Call to the Student Affairs Profession About Male Students,” Inside Higher Education, January 5, 2024

“How colleges turned pink,” April 1, 2024

“Wide Gender Gap, Growing Educational Divide in Voters’ Party Identification,” Pew Research Center, March 20, 2018