This doesn't do much for political debate, but I'd say boys and girls just face different issues today. Girls face what is left (in many places 100%) of our ol

This doesn't do much for political debate, but I'd say boys and girls just face different issues today. Girls face what is left (in many places 100%) of our old male dominated culture. This means (for a variety of complicated reasons) they'll make a little more money and feature more prominently in the ranks of power. But, some of the places where they're disadvantaged as boys (eg schools generally, to a small extent), boys tend to get less attention on their problems. There's also a "sins of their father's" effect, where typically male behaviour is often seen as negative... especially sexual behaviour. Rowdiness too, which may be the reason here. Hard to know where it'll go, but in a worst case scenario male sexuality gets repressed the way female sexuality was/is. I doubt it will go anywhere near that far. Schools as an institution... I think there's clear evidence (drugs being one) that the system works a little better for girls. We could do better in theory, but practically I think it's just going to happen how it happens.