One of the complaints leveled against Mormon culture asserts that Utah has the lowest college completion rate for women in the United States (which may well be true; I simply haven’t verified it), and that Mormonism deserves the blame for this alleged fact.
I was struck, in that light, to read this, from a recent interview with Kevin Worthen, the still relatively new president of Brigham Young University:
The good news for BYU is that women are earning their degrees in comparable rates to men.
For example, the enrollment profile of men to women at BYU is about 55 percent to 45 percent. The male/female composition of the December 2014/April 2015 graduating class was virtually identical at 56 percent to 44 percent.
Additionally, when looking at students who began as new freshman from 2001-2008, the average completion rate for undergraduate degrees was near 76 percent. During this time period, the female students averaged more than a 79 percent completion rate for undergraduate degrees.
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