Recently there has been a call to dust off the Equal Rights Amendment because women somehow are still massive victims of the patriarchy.
How bad is it for women/girls right now, and how good to men/boys have it? Consider this chart, curated by University of Michigan professor Mark Perry:
I'm not ignorant enough to say that in our history women had it bad - they did. And it wasn't ancient history, either. In some instances, it was just a couple of decades ago. Regardless, the pendulum has swung, and as it pertains to education specifically, has swung too far.
Singer Joe Jackson penned in the song Real Men:
If there's war between the sexes
Then there'll be no people left
We're there, folks. We have got to stop the hating on boys and men. I fear what we are going to reap when we have multiple generations which have endured this abject hate.
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