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This is a common theme across all Western countries, see eg PISA & other OECD data and the excellent and detailed Eurostat statistics:

- Girls perform much better in most domains of education (in math & STEM the picture is more mixed) - girls are less likely to drop out - girls are more likely to go to university - in nearly all subjects of university there are more girls than boys, except for a few hard sciences & engineering - after university women are as they get older less and less likely to be in most science professions, less likely to be in management, more likely to stop/take a break from working (and then eventually never come back or vastly under their formal skills level)