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Judith Kleinfeld found the imbalance -- which is happening in other Western industrialized countries, too -- so troubling that she started the Boys Project, a coalition of scholars, educators and nonprofit groups that tries to help engage and inspire boys at the local, state and national levels. She said girls' surging college success is important and welcomed, but it's also clearly time to encourage boys to the same degree.

"Boys don't like school -- this is the root," she said.

Mrs. Sommers said if the trend continues, the result could be a generation of poorly educated and unemployable boys facing a generation of women who are considerably more educated, a situation causing "all sorts of psychological ramifications."

Girl power has seized the day at university and college campuses

Peggy Curran

CanWest News Service

Sunday, February 04, 2007

MONTREAL -- Of the 32 students in Romina Perri's third-year dentistry class at McGill University, 20 are women. In Tamara Finkelstein's fourth-year graduating class, the male-female split is slightly less dramatic, but it's still predominantly female. "As you walk along the corridor of the dentistry building, you can't help noticing there are all these portraits of past graduates, and they are all men," says Finkelstein, 27. "Then there will be one woman, or maybe two, until very recently, when suddenly you can see women start coming in huge numbers."