Grrl Power

BusinessWeek has an interesting story about how girls and women are flourishing these days.

From kindergarten to graduate school, boys are fast becoming the second sex. "Girls are on a tear through the educational system," says Thomas G. Mortenson, a senior scholar at the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education in Washington. "In the past 30 years, nearly every inch of educational progress has gone to them."

But of course, it wouldn't be a story if it didn't fret over the dark side of a positive trend:

A new world has opened up for girls, but unless a symmetrical effort is made to help boys find their footing, it may turn out that it's a lonely place to be. After all, it takes more than one gender to have a gender revolution.

[Link via Arts & Letters Daily]