Gender (in)equalities

Women, I was recently told, have no excuse not to be as successful as men. Strictly speaking, true. Girls perform better academically on average than boys, they are better readers and are even, it seems, encroaching on the boys’ traditional advantage of being better at mathematics. So why is it that the most famous names in any domain in life — except women’s tennis and women’s football — tend to be men? What happens when these girls and boys grow up? Why the discrepancy in achievement in adulthood? Is it that women really are inferior, are they lazy, do they suffer a lack of ambition or are they simply unable to turbo charge their careers because of social and familial constraints? My argument has always been that as long as women bear the children they will always be left behind in the achievement game. To excel in any field, one