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First they outperformed boys at A-Level, then it was at university - and now the women of Britain are beating men in the world of work:

Gaby Hinsliff, chief political correspondent

Sunday August 15, 2004

The Observer

They were the first generation of girls to beat the boys in their school exams - and then outstrip them at university. Now they are storming the last bastions of male-dominated professions. For today's young women, it seems the future really is female.

Women now outnumber men in the most junior ranks of traditionally exclusive professions from law to medicine and the fast track of the civil service, which grooms the diplomats and senior Whitehall mandarins of the future.

And the crop of female students now hitting the 'milk round' of university recruitment is so 'outstanding' that companies are struggling to find men to match them, according to Carl Gilleard, chief executive of the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) - who calls today for 'remedial action' to help the boys left trailing in their wake.

'The world of work is changing and today having good interpersonal skills matters. I think women are better at that, and their emotional intelligence is probably better developed often than men's,' Gilleard said. 'In off-the-record conversations I have with graduate recruiters they often talk about the calibre of candidates: they say the women are so outstanding compared to the men.'