The future is female in medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, law . . .

Women outnumber men in law school, medical school, pharmacy school, optometry school and dental school, writes Jon Marcus in the Hechinger Report. About 55 percent of future lawyers, doctors and dentists are female, more than two-thirds of future optometrists and pharmacists. "Women studying veterinary medicine now outnumber men by four to one."

Men are the majority in doctoral and master’s degree programs in business, engineering, math and the physical sciences.

At the undergraduate level, the number of male students is down by 4 percent since 2020. Sixty percent of undergraduates are female. "Nearly half of women aged 25 to 34 have bachelor’s degrees, compared to 37 percent of men," he writes.

More-educated women are more likely to delay or forgo having children, Wharton researchers have found. In 1970, 80 percent of Americans between the ages of 25 and 34 were married, say Iowa State researchers. That's down to 38 percent. Each additional year of schooling reduces the likelihood that someone in that age bracket is married.

Boys do much worse in reading than girls, writes Claire Cain Miller in the New York Times. "In contrast with efforts to encourage girls in math and science, which have helped shrink their achievement gap with boys, little attention or effort has been focused on improving boys’ reading skills."