@treaclesoda
Girls are flourishing - they're out-achieving boys / men).
I've always found it strange that this is met with such outrage. Boys used to outperform girls and that was accepted. But when things changed it was suddenly a crisis.
I don't want to take over and derail a thread but as you quoted me, I think it's only fair to respond.
No one I know describes it as a crisis. The difference is that as society has evolved, we look for imbalance. Race, sex, class etc. When we see an imbalance we try to address it.
Let me ask you, why do you think there are more men in STEM than women? If you think it's due to 'the patriarchy' or 'the system' or variations of this then you obviously feel males and females are fundamentally the same and we should expect roughly equal outcomes.
If you think there are differences in boys and girls and that these are biological and statistically likely in either sex then you should expect to see differences either in professional or academic attainment.
Which one is it?
I believe that in assessments like the IB or A Levels (and this is borne out by stats and personal experience), the points at the end of a year should be roughly similar as an average attainment. However, boys will occupy the top and the bottom as well as dominate certain subjects. I think that if there's a big gender imbalance then it is an issue which needs addressing. The same as I believed when I was a proud and vocal feminist.
You sound like a hypocritical feminist. Equality for all, unless it's men / boys. I've no doubt you refer to a crisis whenever females are under-represented but scathingly refer to boys achieving less than girls through school.
The difference isn't that males are expected to do better, simply that society has evolved thanks to feminists who came before us and most of us can now look to end all sorts of inequality as opposed to be bad feminists, responsible for giving the movement a bad name.