There is another reason there are more college educated women than men in the work force

 Of course I have to say that this is in regard more to heterosexual (straight men) who only date women or marry women. The other reason is that men often prefer to do things more on their own whereas women often like to communicate a lot. Men often (in my era at least) expected everything to be said to them in 20 words or less and we expected women especially to give us problems to solve by telling us in 20 words or less what was wrong or what problem needed to be solved. If it went beyond this we would start tuning out because no problem that we needed to solve was being addressed.

Women often do better communicating a lot whereas men tend to just tune out after about 20 words or less because that is the way we were genetically designed as protectors of women and families for thousands of years. So, unless we are solving problems or protecting someone we might just go live in a cave somewhere and forget the whole thing.

I had this same problem of not having good direction that made any sense to me at all until I met my first wife and she got pregnant and I had to support them both. Though this was an extreme transition from being someone always meeting new women and dating them from ages 15 to 25 I found a reason to stay alive by meeting my first wife and having a son. This gave me reason to not take the risks I had before in life (physical risks) like Rock climbing on ropes with pitons or other dangerous things. I didn't give up off road motorcycles or driving cars fast but I did slow down when my wife and baby son were in the car mostly. 

So, anyway, for men, having a purpose and solving problems is what most straight heterosexual men who date and marry women are all about. Without a problem so solve we might just move back into a cave somewhere or stay forever in our parents basement playing video games or whatever.

All this verbal communication and written communication goes against what a man is supposed to be over the last 200,000 years of genetic creation by survival, wars, and battles and all sorts of problems that have come up for the human race to solve along the way. 

Without a serious problem to solve most men are lost and retreat into their caves and might never come out (whether that cave is a real cave or a basement or an attic somewhere owned by their parents.

NOTE: Here is an example of myself at age 18. I went to college and I was a scientific Creationist then because I had been raised religious and as a mystical Christian by my parents. I had to drop out of college because as an intuitive I realized so many people believed in Darwinism. I didn't come to terms with this fully until I was 21 by realizing that both Darwinism and Creationism are ONLY THEORIES and not Laws.

However, so when I dropped out of college at 18 within a few months of starting I got a job nearby Glendale where I lived in Hollywood at a Travel publications company working in a mail room there where we shipped travel indexes all over the world. Remember this is 1966 before cell phones, home computers and the internet when if you wanted to find out something it either needed to be printed on paper, put on TV or on the radio.

Well. What happened was that my mother needed an operation and my parents didn't have health insurance so instead of going back to college in January 1967 my parents asked me to work to help pay for my mother's operation. Actually, I liked this Idea because I really appreciated my parents and wanted to do something good for them.

However, then I got used to always having money for gas and cars and girlfriends and traveling which wasn't good for my college experience either. Then when I went back to college in Fall of 1967 after my mother's operation was paid for, I started again with computer programming and by age 20 I was working making a lot of money in the computer industry and could even afford to buy my own new 1968 Camaro which I did (as long as I lived at home I could afford it at least). 

So, the problem for me was that I got so used to making good money that it wasn't until around 1971 when I decided to return to college after I realized that what I really wanted to do in the computer industry wouldn't be possible until 50 to 75 years into the future (about now). So, I got out of the computer industry because I realized it wouldn't take me where i wanted to go then. However, I think I did work a little more in 1977 for Glendale Community Hospital for a few months there when I lived in Pasadena for a little while.

The point is: Everyone needs to be needed and so when my father and mother needed me to financially help them I was there for them just like I was there for my girlfriend when she got pregnant and we got married.

Every young man needs a REAL problem or problems  to solve not fake ones. This is a universal truth of all young men likely no matter their sexual preferences.