Pew Research Center — U.S. women are outpacing men in college completion

What the study found

Pew Research Center reports that U.S. women have moved ahead of men in college completion. Among adults ages 25 to 34, 47% of women held a bachelor's degree, compared with 37% of men — one marker of the large objective gains in women's education and economic position over recent decades. ^[1]

Today, 47% of U.S. women ages 25 to 34 have a bachelor's degree, compared with 37% of men

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Why it matters here

This attainment gap bears on several manosphere debates about gender and education. It provides a direct data point for the question of whether women now outnumber men in college, and it forms part of the wider evidence discussed under do boys fall behind in school?. It is also cited on has feminism made women unhappy? as one of the objective gains in women's education and economic standing that run counter to the idea that recent decades left women worse off. The figures document a real and sizable gap in who completes college, without by themselves settling why the gap exists or what should follow from it.