And Kathleen Wynne makes six -- six female Canadian premiers,
that is. It used to be that the arrival of a female premier was
big news, but it's getting to the point that pretty soon the
arrival of a male premier is going to make headlines. What's
going on here? The fact is Canadian women are doing better
across the board. A while back, girls started doing better than
boys in elementary school, then the wave moved to high school,
then post-secondary education, and now women are starting to do
better than men on the job. So the question becomes: what
happened 30 or 40 years ago to start boys' downward spiral? It
goes without saying that we've experienced social and cultural
changes that have made it possible for women to excel -- both in
higher education and in their professional life. But until
recently, boys did better than girls. What's changed? There are
lots of theories out there about why boys suddenly started doing
worse than girls in school -- things like boys' active natures,
television, lack of male