The educational part is just true. It's been trending that way for years and years. Easily googleable. Not even controversial in education circles—the data are

The educational part is just true. It's been trending that way for years and years. Easily googleable. Not even controversial in education circles—the data are hard to ignore, and it's openly discussed as a problem (solutions, however, are hard to come by). I'm not so sure about the income thing. [EDIT] Some links—far from exhaustive, again, this is such a slam-dunk thing as far as the data go that it's regarded as a fact even by quite-liberal circles of teachers and education researchers, there's not a conservative/liberal divide on whether it's happening (what to do about it—there, differences may be observed). Edutopia: https://www.edutopia.org/article/boys-are-falling-behind-what-can-we-do-about-it https://www.edutopia.org/article/boys-are-falling-behind-wha... Brookings: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2022/10/12/boys-left-behind-education-gender-gaps-across-the-us/ https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2022/10/12/boys-left... UN/UNESCO: https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/04/1115802 https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/04/1115802 (perhaps surprisingly, some aspects of the phenomenon are global) The World Bank (I double-checked, this is really them, not some group with a similar-looking domain): https://blogs.worldbank.org/education/what-about-boys-addressing-educational-underachievement-boys-and-men-during-and-beyond https://blogs.worldbank.org/education/what-about-boys-addres... Financial Times: https://www.ft.com/content/3b2509f2-fda2-11e8-aebf-99e208d3e521 https://www.ft.com/content/3b2509f2-fda2-11e8-aebf-99e208d3e... Et cetera, it just goes on and on like that, pick a source you respect and decent odds you can find them reporting on this at some point. Actual studies abound (it's a topic of active study in education research) but I'm not going to go dig through Library Genesis for them right now.