Cedar Rapids Gazette: More women are attending and graduating from college than ever before, even outpacing the number of male graduates. According to the Pew Research Center, 71 percent of recent female high school graduates enrolled in college in the fall following graduation in 2012, up from 63 percent in 1994, according to numbers reported in the Cedar Rapids Gazette. But somewhere along the way, there’s a major drop off when it comes to female students pursuing an MBA, and Iowa’s three public universities are some distance from achieving gender equity in those pursuing that degree.