State funding - gender differences in spending?

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Hi all

I just saw this on "in the news" and thought it worth bringing over here so that we can have a chat about it. I hope the OP doens't get upset about that!

My instinct is that there must be a good reason for this - I haven't read the links yet. However experience tells me that my instinct in these things is sadly sometimes wrong...

thread here