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The result surprises me. In my immediate circle, I would have guessed mothers of boys to be the ones to agree with the statement: > "promoting women's and girl

• PaulHoule 4y ago
  There's a time delay before people recognize social problems. The trouble is that ideas often persist in public discourse long after they are expired. If I had to point to one intervention it is that we don't have enough men working in early childhood education. Because boys grow up seeing almost exclusively women teachers for their first few years they get an unambiguous impression that "education is a girl thing". Many colleges now practice affirmative actions for boys because otherwise they'd be greatly outnumbered by girls https://www.businessinsider.com/college-affirmative-action-boys-admissions-gap-2021-10 https://www.businessinsider.com/college-affirmative-action-b... as girls don't want to go to a school which is 70% girls. If young woman find this undesirable, it's furthmore predictable that many of them will be blindsided by a perfectly predictable situation 20 years from now because women are interested in marrying up in social status as opposed to marrying down. This will be impossible for most of them if they are college educated at a much higher rate than boys. Women who put off childbearing past age 40 tend to discover rather suddenly that time limits on fertility apply to them so there is likely to be a severe panic about this... When it is way too late.