Female share of BA Degrees by College Major, 1971-2021.
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95%+ of female math majors are doing it to go into education, usually with a plan of getting a masters in math education. The amount of women that are doing math to actually do math either in applied math in industry or PhD level mathematics is almost certainly the lowest out of any of these categories, even comp sci or engineering.
The same is true for biology, psychology, etc the majority of these women grab a 4 year in “science” field then do teaching, admin, or hr. Women gravitate to the lowest risk jobs in every field, and advanced degrees require things like writing scientific studies competently (or used to). This is also why “social” sciences don’t have the same requirements of graduation as “objective/ hard” sciences (or at least until social sciences corrupted everything).
Also journalism. Many go that path, even after graduating in a different field…
Or go work in a fucking zoo/wildlife park/as a ranger, which shouldn’t require a degree (except as a vet, obviously), but anyway…