Female Supremacy Articles - Page 17

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At the point of going to press I have seen only half of the more than two dozen films which constitute this year's overwhelmingly successful International Images Film Festival for Women, of which the great majority consists of full-length, featured imports. At the end of virtually every screening I have been left stunned and in awe of how well the year's theme, Women of Passion, has been exemplified.

In limning what I have long trumpeted as the inevitability of the rise to dominance of the female gender, films such as these will be given as evidence of the stepping-stones which paved the way.

Do you question my use of the word "inevitability"? Certainly for all of history, and all over, it has been "a man's world". Men possessed most of the tools one needed for power and success, muscles, connections and control of the crucial social institutions.

But then along came the information age to change all that. In the information age, education is the gateway to success. And that means this is turning into a woman's world because women are overwhelmingly and worldwide better students than men.

Through elementary, high school and universities women get higher grades in every subject. They are more likely to take advanced placement courses and the hardest maths courses. In every country women have higher reading and writing scores on national assessment tests.