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With more women attending and graduating from college than men in America, Pekgoz says women no longer need additional support.

“Women are the majority, so I really cannot see how this is not discrimination against men,” said Pekgoz, a student at the University of Southern California. He studied English literature in Turkey and moved to the U.S. four years ago to pursue an advanced degree. “We can’t keep living in the past on these issues.”

While the number of women attending college has grown significantly in recent decades, women are still underrepresented in science and technology and in leadership positions in higher education.

Scholars say women’s studies and gender studies, as fields of academic study, are open to men like any other. And advocates of initiatives targeting women in particular say they are crucial to help them succeed in a time when women continue to earn less than men and sexual harassment remains widespread on campuses and in the workplace.

Because there has been so much energy thrown toward women's rights primarily, one might expect that men might step up and say 'What about us?'

“We still have a long way to go to reach equity,” said Shawali Patel, an attorney with the National Women’s Law Center.

The investigations come at a time when President Donald Trump’s administration is pushing ahead with a conservative agenda on other fronts in higher education. Administration officials are endorsing giving greater rights to those accused of sexual assault on campus and pushing back against race-based affirmative action in admissions.