In 1977, I wrote a Minority Report as a member of the Victorian Committee on Equal Opportunity in Schools, in which I highlighted the fact that it was not girls but boys who were disadvantaged in education, and indeed in most areas of life. Twenty-five years later my conclusions were confirmed by the Federal parliamentary report on the education of boys, “Boys: Getting it right” (October 2002), an inquiry which was instigated by growing concern throughout Australia about the failures of males in…
