Boys still tend to drop out of school and assume traditional blue collar roles more than girls.

This is particularly evident in Northern Native Communities, where the grade 12 classes are mostly girls, with most of the boys having dropped out to go hunt, fish, trap, work in resource industries, ...

Women outnumber men, demographically, so we would expect first year University Enrolment to have more women than men, everything else being equal. (males die off faster than females, leaving a population with more women than men)

My wife and I once had to explain to one of our IT colleagues that women are a majority, not a minority. The lady seemed to be confused about the difference between a minority and a socially disadvantaged group.