Yes, that is the problem. The problem is not that it's an "era trying to usher women away from higher education," as your title claims. You make that perfectly clear in your piece: there are far more women enrolled currently than men (about 60% to 40% in my small public university in western NC).

Let's not make turn a non-problem--women pursuing higher degrees--into a real problem, and thereby ignore the real issue, which is the persistence and elevation of oppressive inequalities in the guise of traditional values.