Female Supremacy Articles - Page 6

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If you want to feel confident about Canada's future, meet five remarkable kids. They're the top graduates this year at the elite Toronto French School, and they are the crème de la crème de la crème of their generation. They are accomplished, idealistic, funny, modest, well-rounded, socially aware, and ferociously bright. And all of them are girls.

It's not that the school doesn't have its share of high-achieving boys. It does. But at TFS, girls dominate academics out of all proportion to their numbers. Nine of this year's top 10 graduates are girls. Eight of the nine students in the Scholars' Guild (which is made up of the top students from last year) are girls. The girls have also grabbed the lion's share of the external awards, including one of the University of Toronto's much-coveted National Scholarships (Ms. Sharpe won, but hasn't decided if she'll go there because she has competing offers.) The student council president is male -- this year.

Everyone knows that girls are doing well in school these days. What's stunning is how well. The girls have moved so far ahead, the boys can barely see their dust. This is something new in history -- an entire generation of alpha females, many of whom are destined to outearn the men as well as outperform them.

"Income is closely associated with educational status," says Paul Cappon, director-general of the Council of Ministers of Education Canada. "We've known about this tendency for a long time, but it's much more dramatic now."