Reply #30: Here's the flipside. [View All]

[lumberjack_jeff]

By age 4, girls believe that girls are cleverer, more successful and harder working. By age 7 or 8 the teachers have convinced the boys that the girls are right.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/sep/01/girls-boys-schools-gender-gap

This manifests in poor educational performance by boys, a near monopoly on education by women and a 3:2 ratio of women to men graduating from college.

When you put the boys and girls in separate classrooms both genders perform better, AND the deficit disappears entirely.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=440x133

Much of the backsliding that girls start doing in middle school is attributable to this. If they're going to relate personally to the boys, they have to come down to where they are.

To the extent that men reach leadership positions, it is only by rejecting the lessons they learned in school.