This sentence from the paper sums up to me a remarkable trend:
> For the most recent cohorts, the four-year college graduation
rate for women (32 percent) is ten points higher than the comparable rate for males (22 percent).
This means that women were completing college (I believe in the year 2006) at 1.5 times the rate that men did. That's a huge difference, and from the charts it appears that the difference has been increasing for decades without signs of leveling off.
> For the most recent cohorts, the four-year college graduation rate for women (32 percent) is ten points higher than the comparable rate for males (22 percent).
This means that women were completing college (I believe in the year 2006) at 1.5 times the rate that men did. That's a huge difference, and from the charts it appears that the difference has been increasing for decades without signs of leveling off.