I went to the Colorado School of Mines. There were quite a few gals there by the time I went. And many were very good looking. However, decades of use had ingrained the saying “Mines - where the women are scare and the sheep run scared.” (Or something like that.)
I went to the NM School of Mines (NM Tech). Two of the ‘hottest’ ladies I ever knew were studying Mining Engineering with me.
But.... They were the exception, not the rule.
One changed her major after a couple years. The other graduated and worked as a mining engineer for several years until underground mining pretty much went extinct in the US.
But this story should have been named ‘Miners Wives in Colorado’.