As impressive as women are doing in the corporate world, what is occurring in classrooms around this world is absolutely astounding. The societal evolution that is transpiring is quite evident. “Equality” is not the word that comes to mind when one looks at the data, but rather “Dominance”. In the May 26 cover story of Business Week, Michelle Conlin wrote an article titled “The New Gender Gap (From kindergarten to grad school, boys are becoming the second sex)”. In that article she states the following,

“When the leaders of the Class of 2003 assemble in the Long Island high school's fluorescent-lit meeting rooms, most of these boys are nowhere to be seen. The senior class president? A girl. The vice-president? Girl.

Head of student government? Girl. Captain of the math team, chief of the yearbook, and editor of the newspaper? Girls.

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. …Just a century ago, the president of Harvard University, Charles W. Eliot, refused to admit women because he feared they would waste the precious resources of his school. Today, across the country, it seems as if girls have built a kind of scholastic Roman Empire alongside boys' languishing Greece. Although Lawrence High has its share of boy superstars -- like this year's valedictorian -- the gender takeover at some schools is nearly complete.”

In the June 8, 2003 addition of the Grand Rapids Press, Melissa Slager writes the following in her article titled “Girls are better than boys”;

“Girls have been walking up to graduation podiums in droves this spring, besting boys in the game of grades…Girls in recent years have dominated local valedictorian ranks -- this year, nearly two times the number of boys -- while guys continue to disproportionately fill classrooms for the academically and emotionally challenged.”

Once again this trend is not limited to the United States. Lysiane Gaganon writes about Higher Education in Canada;

“The next generation of Quebec women might face a difficult love life.

According to the September figures on student enrolment unearthed by La Presse reporter Andre Noel, in a few years the province will be filled with high-paid, ambitious, professional women. Across the dance floor will be a large group of losers -- uneducated men stuck in small, low-paying jobs. More and more women -- and fewer and fewer men -- enroll in universities. In 1991, 57 per cent of the students at Universite Laval in Quebec City were female. By 1996, the proportion was up to 60 percent; now it is 63 percent. The good news is that women are becoming more educated. The bad news is that the proportion of men with university degrees is decreasing every year…And women are much more successful. Three out of four female students receive their college diploma, while almost 40 per cent of the male students drop out or fail the exams.”