65% of photography graduates are female – but only 20% of pros are. Is it lack of ability, or something more sinister?

Adam Juniper with a Sony A7iii and Ariane Sherine with a Canon 90D.

Here's a shocking stat: 65% of photography graduates are women, the overwhelming majority, but only about 20% of professional photographers are female. This is according to Hundred Heroines.

The same is true of artists according to the National Museum of Women in the Arts.