All data is sourced from NCES (official usa gov data). I used the 2021 reports where possible, but not all of them exist yet. For some I had to go back to 2020 reports. Since reports only go up to the previous year, sometimes 2019 academic-year data is the most recent available through NCES. Trying to merge the data with other more recent sources that don't have historical data is hard, if not impossible. There are a lot of controls on the data and the additional source would need the exact same controls and dataset (did they use 4 year schools? What about US territories?)

If anyone is interested in Title IX activism via filing federal complaints feel free to drop me a DM or leave a comment. Filing is free and an attorney is not required. You don't even need to have any relation to the school. If you are affiliated with a school and don't want to file, but still want to help, that would be amazing. Fact-finding is better done by current students. Current students can often contribute significantly more by sharing info such as whether or not a class gives credits, statements from students, whether that email was sent only to women or to everyone, and other similar things.

Note: I don't have a degree in law, I am not a lawyer, I am certainly not your lawyer, and I don't give legal advice. What I do is share my experiences and understanding of things (which can be incorrect).

Highlights

Since 1988 the percentage of female high school graduates that enroll in a college has exceeded males, except for 1995. Currently it is 59% of males, and 66% of females. Source

Since 1991 the percentage of women age 18-24 enrolled in college has been in excess of men. In between 2000 and 2015 the there was a 6.1 percentage-point difference favoring women. The trend has been getting worse in recent years, going from 6.1 (2000-2016) to 6.6 (2017), 7.3 (2019), and 8.9 (2020). In contrast, the differential for white and black races was only 5.2% in 2020. Source

Since 1979 the number of women in college has exceeded men, with a 2020 disparity of over 3.2 million students. The percentage of students that are women has been above 55% since 1990. Source

There is a notable deviation in HBCU’s, where women were about 60% of students since the 1990’s and were 64% in 2020. Source

Various state data. Check your state if you want to see how it ranks. Source

Looking at the 2013 first-year cohort for degree-seeking students, males underperform their female peers at every stage. When it comes to the cohort graduating within four years, women had a 10.2 percentage point lead on men. When it comes to graduating late men had a 2.9 percentage point lead. When it comes to graduating within 6 years (a proxy for graduating at all), women have a 6.3 percentage point lead. Previous cohorts had similar results. Source

In for the 2019-2020 academic year, men were only 42% of the bachelor degrees awarded. This has been a stable percentage for about two decades. There was a marginally greater disparity in degrees by gender than there was between black and white students (normalized for representation in 2020 population). Source

Since 1990, more women were awarded master’s degrees every year. Between 2006 and 2015 the representation was stable with men earning only 40% of master’s degrees. In recent years, the gap has been getting worse. Source

Since 2005, more women have been awarded doctoral degrees each year. In 2018, men received 45.7% of doctoral degrees. The gap has been steadily growing since 2012. Source

When it comes to getting financial aid, the stats show a similar bias. In the 2018-2019 academic year, 74.6% of women received student aid, and but only 69.1% of men. Interestingly, this disparity is most pronounced in federal aid awarded (7-point gap), and less pronounced in non-federal aid (2-point gap). Source

In fall 2019, the staff of universities in aggregate was 55% women, with private for-profit universities having more than 60% of their staff identified as women. Source

There has been near-parity (within a 2%-point gap) of genders in instructional staff since 2011. When this fact is considered along with the previous source, it implies that there is substantial disparity in the non-instructor faculty at universities. Source

Between 2013 and 2018 academic years, there was a 26% and 10.8% drop in the number of men receiving education bachelor and master’s degrees respectively. Women had less than half that with 12.2 and 3.7-point drops by comparison. Source

In biomedical science where women are already the majority (63%), enrollment picked up 25% between 2013 and 2018, but only a 2.7% increase for men. Source

Over the same period of time in psychology where women are already 79.1% of degrees, there was an 11% drop in men, and a 2.5% gain in women. Source

Over the same period of time in performing art where women are already 62% of degrees, there was an 11% drop in men, and a 5.8% drop in women. Source