Why do women study abroad twice as much as men?

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Since women attend university in general at higher rates than men, part of it's just numbers. Also, women tend to major in fields that perhaps lend themselves to study abroad like language arts, teaching, social work, etc. (These are all verifiable stats, more than I can say for your frugal theory...which, by the way, isn't really the best way to get on the right foot with us ladies...seriously.)

The motherhood thing could factor into it, but I didn't have any notion of this idea in mind and have dragged my little ones all over the place. My oldest had been to three continents before age one. Women are a little more hardy than all that fainting over thoughts of their doomed future as mothers ;). Besides, if moms are wary of travel with kids now have a slew of blogs giving travel advice (and we at Galavanting are not one of them, just have a travel w/kids columnist).

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