[Gibbon1]

My take is for young women there are a bunch of real economic and social benefits to women that go to college and so they do.

The oldest of them is you go to college to meet men. It's the old 19th century reason. Send your daughter to college and next thing you know she's engaged to her roommates older brother a son of a wealthy industrialist.

Don't discount four years of college is four years of not being under anyones thumb.

College educated women have high social status. And job opportunities that don't involve gross low end work normally done by women.