Rodent Regatta

and go read the cover story – The New Gender Gap – from the latest (i.e. May 26, 2003) issue of Business Week. Maybe this link will work for you, but you might have to have a subscription. If the link won’t work, go buy a copy or get to the library.

Whether you have kids or not; whether you have pro- or anti-feminist leanings; whether you’ve ever sensed the gender-shift that is taking place in our society or not, this article is for you.

It may be time for Halley to write an alpha-female series, because the article will have you believe the alpha-male is dead!

Here’s a clip from Business Week:

The female lock on power at Lawrence is emblematic of a stunning gender reversal in American education. From kindergarten to graduate school, boys are fast becoming the second sex. ”Girls are on a tear through the educational system,” says Thomas G. Mortenson, a senior scholar at the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education in Washington. ”In the past 30 years, nearly every inch of educational progress has gone to them.”