Except that's not what happened. Typically people just compare the relative rates of men and women in STEM, but years ago I saw some graphs that used absolute

Except that's not what happened. Typically people just compare the relative rates of men and women in STEM, but years ago I saw some graphs that used absolute numbers instead of relative numbers. It tells a very different story than the typical one: Up until the 80s (give or take a decade, I don't remember exactly when the inflection happened), men and women were graduating in STEM fields at around the same rate, and both increasing. After the inflection point, women graduates kept increasing at the exact same rate as before, but men skyrocketed. Women aren't being pushed out, men flocked to these fields.