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Slut Walks: Feminism is so passe, it's the boys who need help now

Growing up in the Sixties and Seventies, no one ever asked me how many children I wanted or at what age I thought I would marry. In those heady decades when feminism came of age, we schoolgirls never daydreamed about wedding dresses or sighed over babies.

Instead, we focused on our careers. If we said we wanted to be nurses, air hostesses or secretaries, we were pretty sharply advised to think about becoming doctors, linguists or businesswomen instead.

The idea that we were less equal than boys was so unthinkable it simply never entered our heads. We were the product of the brave new world fought for by the likes of Gloria Steinem and Germaine Greer, and we took our equality absolutely for granted.

Throughout my career, I’ve had equal opportunities to men and I’ve seized them. Some men haven’t liked that, it’s true — but, to be honest, neither have some women.

So now when I read about the ‘new feminism’, as bandied about this week by the publishers of a new book, How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran, I find myself wondering: what new feminism?

In the Western world, the feminist argument has been definitively won — and all the silly and, frankly, somewhat pathetic ‘slut walks’ in the world won’t refute that.

As far as I can tell, the new feminism aims to make men share more of the childcare. And, of course, it’s true that children prevent many women from going further in their careers. But it’s also true that it’s usually the woman’s choice. The maternal instinct is so powerful that most mothers want to do a larger share of the childcare.

For years, girls have outstripped boys at school and at university, and more women than men are entering formerly male-dominated professions such as medicine and law. The latest figures show that girls do better than boys at GCSE and in further education — 20 per cent more girls go on to university than boys, and are more likely to get a good degree.

Nothing will convince me that boys are inherently more stupid than girls. No, the reason boys are lagging behind girls is because they’re the ones who are being discriminated against. It is they who are being kept back by the system.

For a start, boys thrive on structured teaching, discipline, competition and sport — the very things absent from our schools. They need male teachers as role models, in a country where very few men go into education. They need lots of sport to accommodate and channel their aggression, in schools which offer only two hours’ sport a week. And they need courses that haven’t been feminised and that are based on do-or-die exams rather than endless coursework.

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