There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper

[MMI]

I've just skimmed through this (most of it's too hard for me) but in case no-one else has, I thought I'd mention that, in the UK, the public school-leaving exams were always marked with a bias towards boys (in other words, boys gained marks because they were boys), and that way, boys were shown to perform better than girls.

Like cats do, this eventually got out of the bag, and a fairer system of marking had to be introduced. Since then, girls' results have always improved more than boys'. (It is an inviolable "natural law" in UK that pupils' results improve year after year after year, no matter how low standards must drop to achieve this.)

And now, there are more female undergraduates at university than there are males.

I don't know how the balance of sexes within the population affects this outcome, but I do think the "feminisation" of the British education system has had a lot to do with it, and I know that a few boys now suffer at the hands of misandric teachers, just as many girls suffered at the hands of misogynistic ones before, but it cannot be denied that, in the UK at least, girls seem to have greater academic intellect than boys do.

[lucy]

I don't know how the balance of sexes within the population affects this outcome, but I do think the "feminisation" of the British education system has had a lot to do with it, and I know that a few boys now suffer at the hands of misandric teachers, just as many girls suffered at the hands of misogynistic ones before, but it cannot be denied that, in the UK at least, girls seem to have greater academic intellect than boys do.

It's the same here in Switzerland, more girls than boys enter Universities by now. But i think it hasn't anything to do with intellect at all. It's simply because school subjects that appeal more to girls than to boys, i.e. languages, have become more important in recent years.
Furthermore, boys drop out of high school at a much higher rate than girls.
So i think the process of making the school system fairer for girls has created unfairness for the boys.

Back to the topic i think Tom pretty much summed it up: Men just want to win harder than women. That's why more of them achieve really outstanding things.