Male underperformance is real and pervasive. It begins in the grade schools. On the Washington Assessment of Student Learning, the girls beat the boys on the 10th-grade test — and on the 7th and 4th grade tests. Girls pummel the boys in reading and writing, and are edging past them in the boys' traditional stronghold, math.
But the consequence of what has happened to men — or what men have done to themselves — is, Mortenson says, that many college women are not going to have college-educated husbands.
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