There is, obviously, a lot of stuff tied up in this data; but, when you look at the current gender data on higher-ed students and graduates, and the historical

There is, obviously, a lot of stuff tied up in this data; but, when you look at the current gender data on higher-ed students and graduates, and the historical trend of higher education attendance and graduation with liberal ideological affiliation, then this isn't super surprising. (One could also argue that critiques of neo-liberalism (an amorphous term to be sure) have also gone "mainstream." Yet while in higher-ed those critiques are often synonymous with a left-leaning worldview, we're seeing a critique from the "other side," the non-higher educated demographic.)