Editor Jennifer Suggests: The Trouble With Boys, by Peg Tyre

I grew up in the decades after women's liberation and I was always confident that I could compete with boys in any subject at school. Turns out I was right. And according to Tyre, the generation of women who grew up after me went on to trounce their male counterparts.

Boys still score slightly higher on the SAT, but girls take more AP classes, have better grade point averages, participate in more activities and look better all around to college admissions officers. In fact, Tyre says that if this trend continues, a whopping sixty percent of all college attendees in 2016 will be women.

Women are also taking over graduate programs. One statistic that jumped out at me is that seventy percent of all students in veterinary school are women.

I think we're going to see a sea change in my children's generation. I think my sons are going to find it hard to out-earn their wives. This has all kinds of implications. If a woman earns more than her husband, how much time will she take off from work to raise her kids? Will we see more men taking part time or flexible jobs to run Sammy and Janey to piano lessons? What will that mean for housework and childcare? Will these tasks finally be valued more by society when men take them over?

The next twenty years are going to be interesting.