Young women are doing disproportionately well in this recession. Girls have just outperformed boys at GCSE and A-level for the tenth consecutive year, and along with the cursory smattering of articles bemoaning the educational fate of our nation’s masculine promise, it has also emerged that women are overtaking men in the treacherous world of entry-level employment.
While 11.2 per cent of young women are not in work or training, among young men that figure is half as high again, at 17.2 per cent. Why aren’t feminists excited by this news? Shouldn’t we be chalking up the fact that young women are hoarding top grades and precious low-wage vacancies as a major victory for 21st-century women’s liberation?
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