The Issue with American Policy Graduate Schools Being 70% Female (US Context)

As a sequel to my last post about where the Gen Z men in public policy have gone, I was at a dinner party last night where I mentioned how Policy Graduate schools (at least the US News top 25 that I'm tracking) are around 70% women (and increasing).

One lady, who has an engineering graduate degree, asked why is that an issue when engineering graduate programs can at times be 80 to 90% men. I view both as being problematic.

There are many things in the world that aren't engineered for women in mind (I can go on for days, but I will let other women highlight these).

I would argue that the conversations I hear from policy schools increasingly lack the male perspective (especially from among minority men). This might work in some policy spaces, but I believe will in the long run further isolate public policy professionals (being female majority dominant) and politicians at large (responsible to a generally 50/50 electorate). So in the long term, it is self-defeating to train aspiring policy professionals from really good schools to be essentially blind to male perspectives via in-person community engagement.

Thoughts?