Well it goes beyond school and into the workplace as well. Easily the most successful people in my cohort from school are women in terms of what they've accomplished in their life and careers thus far. Most of the boys are relatively middling or have made some pivots to their detriment by now, the most successful of them attempted to spread their wings for a time before being offered a good position at fathers company back at home that was assured since birth.
> Easily the most successful people in my cohort from school are women in terms of what they've accomplished in their life and careers thus far.
Really no guys in your class became programmers or engineers? Its really common for guys to go into those fields, on average its a few per class depending on country.
Or do you mean success as in they have started families? Women do that much earlier, but that has nothing to do with competence.
Schools aren't designed to give girls an advantage. They're designed to make productive workers and members of society. Boys may have more asocial, even antisocial, tendencies on average. That still doesn't mean the system is stacked against them. It just means they have to learn to work within it, not burn it down and rebuild it to oppress the 'other'.
> They're designed to make productive workers and members of society.
Let's say that is correct. Wouldn't the observed failure of school to make boys productive workers and members of society then indicate that it should be changed to meet its goal?
I'd like to suggest that the difference was that girls were way better at school than the boys.
That is, school is an environment built such that the skills required to succeed are more likely to be found in a girl than a boy.