I know you mention that women do better in formal education.  That wasn&#x27;t the case a few decades ago, when I believe there was far less prejudice.<p>I had lunch with a few female teachers several weeks ago. One of their conversations was around the over-enthusiasm of boys in class. They unanimously agreed that boys needed to &quot;shut up&quot; (literal quote) so girls could answer questions too.  This view parallels that of my ex-girlfriend who is (and was then) a teacher who felt boys had some sort of natural advantage that needed to be suppressed.<p>I also made mention of code.org that had one link only on the main page &quot;why girls should participate in IT&quot; (or very similar words).  My young son noticed this and asked if he was welcome.<p>I would not use today&#x27;s metrics on boys vs girls in education as a basis for any measurements. If we stopped with the prejudice (which is extremely common today), the picture would look quite different.