[Tax-chick]

What took place in the last few decades is that colleges have expanded these soft science majors and accepted more women.

Because they realized that was a way to make more money, especially since so much of the cost is not being borne immediately by the student.

Iirc, the 70% women figure came from Mike Adams, and referred specifically to the incoming freshman class at UNC-Wilmington.

[outpostinmass2]

Because they realized that was a way to make more money, especially since so much of the cost is not being borne immediately by the student.

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True and also colleges were mandated to increase female and minority student enrollment. A quick way to increase enrollment is to offer soft majors.
I attended an engineering school which to my utter disappointment was overwhelming male. Females didn’t apply for admissions and were not interested for the most part in the curriculum. In my 2nd year the school developed an interior design engineering major as an offshoot of the architect department.