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In law at McGill, women hold seven of the nine student association positions for the first time that anyone can remember. Yet, with 91 women to 79 men, law at McGill is as close to equal as professional schools get these days. In courses such as psychology, Linah Hashimi says whenever a guy asks a question, people take notice. "Everyone turns their heads to see who's speaking," said Hashimi, 22, in the final year of a double major in biology and psychology at McGill.

With many of her classes as much as 90-per-cent female, male students are as rare and exotic as a snowy owl that has veered off its natural flight path. People get ready, there's a change a-coming. An extraordinary experiment is brewing at university and college campuses across Canada. Girl power has seized the day, setting the stage for a seismic shift in hospitals and clinics, legal practices, corporate headquarters and academia, changes that will reshape the way the country works in the generations to come, determine who earns what, even who has children and how many.

Women make up more than 60 percent of university students across this country. More women than men are training to be doctors, dentists, lawyers, pharmacists, and scientists. The trend is most pronounced in Quebec, where the high-school dropout rate for boys is higher. Think of it this way: Within the next 10 to 15 years, by the time the last gasp of baby boomers is ready to retire, nearly every profession will be overwhelmingly female.