https://local-resources.ucdavis.edu/local_resources/docs/catalog/GenCat19461947.pdf is a course catalog from a state flagship university in 1946-47.
Math courses are listed starting page 334.
Note the remedial/developmental offerings:
G = high school geometry
D = high school algebra 2
C = high school trigonometry
1 = high school precalculus (other than trigonometry)
This suggests that the idealized notion that high school graduates in the “good old days” were far more competent at math than they are now is mistaken, since even those who went to college at the state flagship were often expected to need math courses that are now considered very low level in the context of college bound high school students.
Note that women back then had restricted housing choices, described on page 56. This is likely why the housing cost estimate was higher for women than men on page 52.