Not to beat a dead horse here, but not every LAC with a significant gender imbalance has appreciably different acceptance rates for men and women. Some schools seem like they try to apply consistent admissions standards across the board, and if they get more female applicants, they just let in more women and accept a skewed gender ratio as a consequence.
We were looking at St. Olaf and Whitman for my son, and I was curious whether being male would give him an admissions advantage, since both schools are fairly gender imbalanced (58/42 and 56/44 respectively). But when I looked at the numbers in their common data sets, the acceptance rates for men and women were essentially identical, and, in fact, both schools had admitted a slightly higher percentage of their female applicants, despite getting far more applications from women.
So, bottom line: the blanket statement “It’s harder for women to get accepted to LACs”, is, like most blanket statements, an over-generalization.