High school-to-college pipelines need to be improved in many areas. The undergraduate pipeline is failing in gender overall: ~60% women + ~40% men. Universities

High school-to-college pipelines need to be improved in many areas. The undergraduate pipeline is failing in gender overall: ~60% women + ~40% men. Universities that gender rebalance effectively make it harder for women to get in and easier for men. STEM (except biology and nursing) is bad at attracting women, with computer science and electrical engineering being possibly the most imbalanced fields compared to psychology and nursing at the other extremes. There's nothing wrong with individual major overall preferences but there is a problem when 2x the number of women are being educated than men. That's a strategic human capital loss and likely signals future underemployment. Phil Zimbardo (Stanford Prison Experiment and community college lecturer by telecourses broadcasted by KCSM) wrote a number of books and gives a TED talk on this subject. Prescriptive formulas at the point of college entrance isn't the correct place to apply pressures. Mentoring, programs, resources, and subject public relations need to happen where there is great need and especially in areas with fewer resources.