This is good news for society. Too many young men have fallen behind in the last ten years and young women now outpace them in college. It’s great young women are doing well, but if young men don’t have a parallel career path, they may become disheartened about their future, and we end up with a large cohort of disenchanted young men and political instability. The trades can provide an alternative non-college career path for these young men.
But do highly educated women want to date and marry plumbers, mechanics, bricklayers, plasterers, etc? Women almost always date upwards.
Same for Hartshorne’s Algebraic Geometry. Neither of these are bad textbooks at all, they both have a place on my bookshelf, but certainly better options have appeared through the years (for AG, I’d be remiss to mention Ravi Vakil’s fantastic The Rising Sea, due for a physical publishing October, and Ulrich Görtz & Torsten Wedhorn two part series)