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It should only take a second or two to think of possible reasons.
Here's one: Education causes birth rates to plunge. So if existence is a good, then the more you educate women, the more you harm children.
Yeah, I hadn't thought about that -- though IIRC educated men also have fewer children in average. (And personally I lean more to average utilitarianism than total utilitarianism at the moment.)
Men don't get hit as hard, IIRC. And it's not like men have ever been bottlenecks to reproduction - an educated woman can just go use a sperm bank (significantly better than an old husband in terms of birth defects), engage one-night stands, marry downwards, etc.