40 years!  40 years!  Wow, where does 40 years stack up in the hundreds of years of domination by white males, simply by the virtue of their white maleness? It's only been 100 years since women have been allowed to vote  As I said, it takes a long time to get rid of ingrained bias.  If girls are pulling far ahead of boys now, think of where they would be if they had not been suppressed for hundreds of years before.  I'm not afraid, but it seems a lot of men are.