UK: Women have won the fight for equality. Now they should use their power to help the boys

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'This year, girls are 30 per cent more likely than boys to win a university place – a figure that is being celebrated because it’s down on last year’s 31 per cent. The gap is narrowing, but this is not progress worthy of the name.

This trend is at its most pernicious at the bottom end of the income scale, and worse still when you strip out ambitious immigrants and their children. Poor white children always fare worse under the state school system, but poor white boys do worst of all. It’s the inequality that dare not speak its name.
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Mary Curnock Cook, the head of Ucas, has worried aloud about all of this: surely, she says, such a huge gender imbalance at school will lead to gender imbalance later on? On current trends, she says, girls born today will be 75 per cent more likely to go university than boys.

Not that anyone has been terribly interested in her warnings. The Department for Education recently states, almost with pride, that it doesn’t fund any research looking at male underachievement; it is “gender-blind”.

Yet the Government's own research shows the graduate earnings premium is significantly higher for women than men; that men are not just less likely to apply to university but less likely to graduate and (if they do) to end up with worse grades; that if you’re a white boy poor enough to qualify for free school meals, you’re likely to do worse in school (and, ergo, at work) than almost anyone else.'