> Should then boys be competing against women of the same age given what we know? In a perfect world, education would not be a competition at all. Everyone wou

> Should then boys be competing against women of the same age given what we know? In a perfect world, education would not be a competition at all. Everyone would proceed at their own pace, differently in different subjects. And maybe at the end, where would still be a certification of people who mastered something versus people who didn't. But we would not freak out so much about whether someone understood something e.g. at the age of 12, instead of 13 or 14. The important thing should be that at some age they did.