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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowThe gap between women and men attending college in Indiana continues to grow in favor of women. In raw numbers, 72,419 more girls than boys who graduated from Indiana high schools from 2009 to 2023 went on to higher education. Another head-jerking trend: The overall percentage of high school grads in Indiana who enroll in higher education stumbled from 61% in 2018 to 52% just five years later in 2023.
Richard Fry, senior researcher at Pew Research Center, joins IBJ to discuss the widening gender gap in U.S. college enrollment. Fry analyzes federal data from 2011 to 2022, highlighting a sharp drop in college attendance among young men, shifting public views on the value of a degree, and rising wages for workers without one. He also examines racial and ethnic differences, workforce participation trends, and challenges in tracking training programs.
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