Last winter [2021-2022], I searched Youtube for videos about “study abroad”. Based on a sample of over 100 videos returned from Youtube’s search, at the time, just 8% of videos appeared to be from males, and the rest were from females[1]. About 2/3ds to 3/4s of study abroad students are female (little known fact – women have been a majority of college graduates in the U.S. for decades), and with up to 75% of social media posts coming from women, it is not a surprise that most study abroad videos are from young women
([1] I redid this survey in November of 2022 and just 4% of videos were from males and the rest from females).
Is “pretty privilege” a “thing” on social media platforms? – Social Panic
