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It's not just US education. Europe also has a significantly higher graduation rate for women than men. In 2014 in Estonia almost twice the amount of women graduated from higher education than men.

Here's the long Eurostat link (use the Sex dropdown to look at the different sexes):

https://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?query=BOOKM...

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Some very interesting trends here. Overall, Germany seems relatively equitable looking at the 6 year average.

Though the relatively large jump between 2018 and 2019 seems odd, I assume there's some additional factor(s) I'm unaware of affecting the totals.

This is a case of 'you get what you incentivize' not much else

What are the incentives here?

I mean a general cultural push to get more women into higher education and the various gender balance quotas in both academic positions and funding and also conferences. Wasn't that the goal here?

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