I recall when I last heard that girls did better at maths in school than boys, I recalled the amount of effort that had been employed to better teach maths to girls to address historical biases and thought, “I guess now they need to work out how to teach it to boys if they really are trying for equality”

But I don’t think they were trying for equality

I’m not studying social sciences anymore so haven’t seen anything more recent than the early 2000s but I can’t imagine much study has been funded to improve boys education beyond general improvement to education

I think the difference is just that girls are typically less prone to slacking off than boys, more focused on success. But that’s less true now than it was, girls are now as unfocused as boys.

I think the difficulty girls had was entirely due to them being told it took a male brain to do well.

This is all about Australian schools, I presume in more misogynist places girls are still told they’re bad at maths because they’re girls

Ed. Typo/swipeo error correction