[dangus]

This is not as stupid as it sounds.

STEM programs often use “weed-out” classes, where it’s very difficult to get a decent grade. Students who are mediocre, but committed as hell to succeeding in STEM will take the C-, or maybe even repeat the class several times to pass. Students who feel less like they belong, on the other hand, will drop the class if they fear the B will mess up their GPA. And women are much more likely to fall in that second category.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Then the solution is for women to become less concerned with their GPA, and more concerned with their degree. The article notes that women actually tend to have higher grades than men in those STEM classes, so it's not like those classes are weeding out women disproportionately.

If the women STEM students don't want it as badly as the men and so drop out anyway...that's on them.