--- Russell Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> William T Goodall wrote:
>
> > "Women have overtaken men at every level of education in developed
> > countries around the world.
>
> It is a big problem here - the school where I work used to be clearly #1
> in the state, with daylight second, and it had been that way for about
> 135 years, but it is now #3 in the state, simply because we are a boys
> school, and the 2 better performing schools from an academic and
> university entrance point of view are girls schools.
> There's plenty of theories as to how it happenned, but no-one seems to
> know how to get teenaged boys to focus on their study... Funny that.
>
> What we are seeing here is the effect of equality - girls are better at
> study, and now that girls have an equal opportunity to do well, they are
> doing just that. In other words, it was always like this, but society
> was hobbling the girls.
BS
what we are seeing is a focus by society on the things girls are good at as
apposed to a focus by society at what the individual is good at.
(Prepisition firmly planted at the end of sentence!)
> I wonder if we will eventually see a matriarchal society in developed
> countries - with a preponderance of female civic and commercial leaders?
> Would certainly change the dynamic between the developed countries and
> third world countries...
True, that would be very interseting.
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