Things are definitely getting better about people picking majors that aren’t “traditional” to their gender but don’t fool yourself in to thinking both sides aren’t still lopsided. Men in arts would be more likely than women in STEM IMO. I agree things are improving all around, but don’t let some anecdotal evidence (specifically from the art side and not in the engineering department itself) convince you that career choice still isn’t a factor. Plus it’s still a factor in the sense that a huge chunk of the workforce was in school back when things where even more “separate.” So when discussing this it makes sense that you include that in part of the reasoning. Unless you’re only studying young adults.