History PlayingWith / HigherEducationIsForWomen

* '''Enforced''': WomenAreWiser

* '''Implied''': A focal FiveManBand at the college consists of Alice, Bob, Chuck, Denise, and Emma.

* '''Played for Drama''': Bob is pressured by his parents to not go to college,with many attacks on his masculinity.

'''Basic Trope''': Women are more likely to attend or graduate from college than men are.

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* '''Straight''': Upon graduating from HighSchool, all the girls in Troperville High's senior class plan to go to college. Only half of the boys in the same class do.
* '''Exaggerated''': None of the boys plans to go to college, and few of them will even get a high school diploma.

* '''Deconstructed''': Troperville's economy declines as it deindustrializes, and the men no longer have the opportunity to walk into a factory career from high school.

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** The girls find it easier to get grants and scholarships to help pay for college.

** Alice is only going to college because her parents want her to. What she really wants to do is drop out and learn a trade.
** A lot of the girls are going to trade school, or joining the military.

* '''Parodied''': Alice's parents are pleased, but not particularly surprised, to learn of her acceptance to Harvard. Her similarly smart younger brother Bob, on the other hand, is also accepted to Harvard two years later, and his parents are flabbergasted.
* '''Zig Zagged''': The female-to-male ratio of new university students varies year by year.

* '''Deconstructed''': Troperville's economy declines as it deindustrializes, and the men no longer have their opportunities to walk into a factory career from high school.
* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': There are far more girls than boys in the class, so it stands to reason that more girls than boys are going to college after graduation.

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* '''Reconstructed''': Both boys and girls are encouraged to go to school, and encouraged to show their intelligence. As a result, more students (of both genders) plan to go to college, and more end up with better career prospects.

* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': There are far more girls than boys in the class, so it stands to reason that more girls than boys are going to college after graduation.

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'''Basic Trope''': Women are more likely to attend college or graduate from college than men are.

* '''Exaggerated''': None of the boys plan to go to college, and few of them are even going to get their high school diploma.

** The boys have been taught that college is a waste, or that intellect isn't cool.

** The town has a major manufacturing business, so many of the men can get good jobs with less education, while the factory is reluctant to hire women (except in the office, where degrees help.)

* '''Parodied''': Alice's parents are pleased, but not particularly surprised, to learn of her acceptance to Harvard. Her similarly book-smart younger brother Bob, on the other hand, is also accepted to Harvard two years later, and his family are flabbergasted.

** Both genders are going to (and graduating from) college in pretty equal ratios.

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* '''Conversed''': ???

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'''Basic Trope''': Women are more likely to attend college or graduate from college than men are.
* '''Straight''': Upon graduating from HighSchool, all the girls in Troperville High's senior class plan to go to college. Only half of the boys in the same class do.
* '''Exaggerated''': None of the boys plan to go to college, and few of them are even going to get their high school diploma.

** The girls find it easier to get grants and scholarships to help pay for college.
* '''Inverted''': All the boys intend to go to college, but only half of the girls do.

** The girls tend to be going for an MRSDegree more than an actual career-focused education. Or, if this is a period piece, going to [[ForgottenTrope finishing school]] instead of actual college, to be trained in the arts of homemaking, style, and party-hosting.

** A disproportionately large number of the boys in college end up dropping out or flunking out, or spending more time engaging in WackyFratboyHijinx than studying.
** Fewer men end up going to grad school after completing college.
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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

** No one in the senior class is going to a traditional four-year college; they're all joining the military, getting married, learning trades, or going straight into the workforce.

* '''Lampshaded''': ???

* '''Exploited''': A college markets itself to girls more than it does to boys.
* '''Defied''': More girls choose not to go to college, and/or more boys choose to go to college.

** The girls tend to be going for an MRSDegree more than an actual career-focused education.
*** Or, if this is a period piece, going to [[ForgottenTrope finishing school]] instead of actual college, to be trained in the arts of homemaking, style, and party-hosting.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

** Plenty of the boys are going to college.

* '''Invoked''': ???

** A disproportionately large number of the boys in college end up dropping out or flunking out, or spending more time engaging in WackyFratboyHijinks than studying.

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* '''Basic Trope''': Women are more likely to attend college or graduate from college than men are.

* '''Justified''': The town is largely poor, and more of the girls come from families better able to pay for college than the boys do.

* '''Subverted''': Although many of the girls intend to go to college, a good portion of them end up not going.

* '''Double Subverted''': A lot of the boys don't graduate or attend college either.

* '''Averted''': Both genders are going to (and graduating from) college in pretty equal ratios.