An interesting editorial in the current edition of The Spectator. The paper wouldn’t have published such a piece even a year ago.
There are, however, flaws in the article, including the lazy acceptance of the feminist narrative that the gender pay gap above 40 is ‘a problem to be solved’, rather than a reflection of men’s and women’s choices. An extract:
A select committee that champions equality ought to be concerned about this growing disparity in educational attainment. What is it about our schools which is failing to engage boys, and how can it be corrected?
There are at least two contributory answers to the first question – the feminization of the teaching profession, and the replacement of the ‘O’ level system by GCSEs in 1987/8, as reported by William Collins – here. How can the problem be corrected? By returning to assessment by examinations – Collins’s article demonstrates that, contrary to popular opinion, girls were not disadvantaged by this – and the appointment of far more male teachers, from primary school onwards.
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Justice for Men & Boys 
Its a shame Mary Curnock cook is retiring. She really did put her head above the parapet on this repeatedly. I sincerely hope her replacement has the same integrity. As you say it is remarkable that this is now becoming “respectable” enough to be mentioned in the media. I too was really un aware of the extent until a couple of years ago and yet its a crucial issue to focus on. For our schools do fail boys both in achievement but also in the wave of “medication” responses to their difficult behaviour. And our schools increasingly become sites for “programmes” to change society at the behest of feminists and a very politicised workforce. An unattractive possibly hostile environment for male teachers let alone boys.
A very good point also made in the composition of the Equalities Committee itself . At some point perhaps the agitation of its newest member might also point out its lack of representation from the “Equality Strands” of the Equality Act . No ethnic minorities, people with a disability, transgender ? The middle class white women label appears right on.
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Before Philip Davies’s appointment to the Wimmin & Equalities Committee, only two of the 11 members of the committee were men, neither both heterosexual and White British. Almost half the population (at a guess, 40-45%) – heterosexual White British men – deliberately excluded on sexist and/or racist grounds.
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