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Men Were Already Behind Women In Higher Education. The Pandemic Made Things Worse.

Ashe Schow
Men Were Already Behind Women In Higher Education. The Pandemic Made Things Worse.
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Women have dominated college campuses in recent decades, but the coronavirus pandemic made the divide even worse, as many men realized remote learning was not for them.

The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that last fall, “male undergraduate enrollment fell by nearly 7 percent, nearly three times as much as female enrollment, according to the National Student Clearinghouse.”

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