The women giggled. As she walked to the front of the room, everyone applauded. She filled the board with newly available numbers describing the link between education and employment in South Africa. For a few minutes, everyone stared at the tables of percentages on the blackboard, including Couper, an ISR sociologist born in South Africa who was teaching the session. Even after you control for education, there are gender differences.
Boys get more food than girls.
Several male students groaned. My perception is that this is not so any more. People have moved away from that attitude. A woman today won't feed her baby girl any less than her baby boy. You expected no difference, you found no difference.