Then why do more women drop out of advanced degree programs than men?
Because whether they can and whether they do more often are two different things. I'm disturbed by you just claiming the above without a source.
I’m a STEM PhD so maybe I saw it more. However, it’s well recorded that women drop out of STEM degree programs more often than men do from the same program. No one has a real reason for it. Even the study linked below admits the data doesn’t exist to study it well be cause only graduates are recorded. But of course since there is no reason that they can determine, it must be all the men in the programs
https://hbr.org/2016/09/what-it-will-take-to-keep-women-from-leaving-stem
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180917082428.htm
Of course they can.