[Phang]

This can be elaborated by the fact that in high school, females get better grades on courses. This is reversed, or better said, leveled, at the point where the final exams come. The final exams are ultimately judged by teachers and acadamians who have probably never met a single person whose exams they check. This is where the female teachers - female students -axis that has been recently discussed in the major news papers (including the Helsingin Sanomat) gets cut off. Some might argue the damage has already been done at that point. I'm not overly concerned about such,though.

you know, it's funny. We've had that for forty years or so, and always put it down to one of those little behavioural-psych things. I don't think anyone in the history of British academia has pointed to it as proof that there's an oppressive matriarchal conspiracy in our schools. How little we know