Well yeah, when you say "fewer men are graduating" it always sounds like a bad thing. It's the phrasing of the sentence. It doesn't sound like it means the same thing as "more women are graduating".

Also, I find it odd that women got more financial assistance from parents than men. I am definitely part of that 86% of women who think college is too expensive. I get assistance from my mom in that she still pays for my medication (epilepsy meds get expensive) and cell phone. However, when I get extra money from a scholarship or whatever I try to give her a hundred bucks or whatever I can gather up. But other than that I have paid for everything in college. My brother and sister the same.

My siblings and I are first generation college students and I am the first person ever in my family to go past a bachelor's degree. I am pretty pleased with the surprising respect I get being a female in science. I was expecting the opposite (and I often get that from 'good ol boys' who are in their 60s or 70s and don't like change) but for the most part guys in my dept (and in school overall) have been very supportive of me.