Female Supremacy Articles - Page 24 "Women's town" to put men in their place

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But the only long-term solution for the "uselessness" of young men, as complained of by my twenty something colleagues, is to get serious with the education of males in primary schools. And if the Equal Opportunities Commission wants to say something sensible for a change, it should start campaigning for more male teachers.

Why girls do so much better than boys

Andrew Cunningham

Published: 08 February 2007

More inde-pendent schools are going co-ed, with the number of single-sex schools shrinking. Yet the league tables are still dominated by girls-only schools, and the gap between boys and girls at GCSE remains huge. Last summer, only 51 per cent of boys gained five good GCSE passes, as opposed to 61 per cent of girls. So it's not surprising that the Government has recently conceded that boys and girls may learn better separately in state secondary schools, too.

After my first term in a top girls' school, I now understand why girls' results are so good. For 15 years, I taught mainly boys. I was used to their sluggish ways. Then I started teaching English at North London

Collegiate School. I couldn't believe the difference. The main challenge in teaching boys is trying to shake them out of their torpor. Here, the girls are keen to learn and they make huge demands of their teachers.