I agree with most of this. > It's not really meritocratic. There was a clever study on this some time ago that proved female teachers systematically give highe

I agree with most of this. > It's not really meritocratic. There was a clever study on this some time ago that proved female teachers systematically give higher grades to girls. To add anecdata, I did some marking of written and typed work, and I found I was extremely accurate in determining whether the writer was a male or female. > It's definitely not that women benefit from meritocracy. We really don't know yet. There was a time when females were kept out of education (and poor males too). The claim is made that "women bias to counter historic bias". Based on this, now that females now perform better than males in education, is this not now a completed task? > Indeed what I've seen over my whole life is that many women are determined to eradicate meritocracy of any kind. Equality was simply never the goal. We don't see surges of females becoming construction workers or hauling trash. We don't see males encouraged to enter into female dominated fields such as sociology or language studies. What we see almost exclusively is females encouraged into historically male dominated fields - that's all.