By the year 2000 or thereabouts, co-educational schools in Australia were generally operating under educational policies similar to those that had applied in girls schools in the 1970s. Boys schools – which hadn’t radically changed their policies, except where forced to do so were generally still performing at similar levels to the past. Boys in co-educational schools were the ones in dire straits.
You say This was where females decided that they would try and pick and choose which areas of equality they actually wanted.
I’d much rather that approach had been the one that had prevailed here than what we actually got – which was where things were changed to be ‘equal’ for boys and girls, but always based on what was best for girls, and never on what was best for boys.
“Girls don’t want to study Lord of the Flies – let’s replace it with Pride and Prejudice.”
“Girls don’t want to go on long hikes through the bush on school camps. Let’s have basket weaving instead.”
“Having competition football and netball teams is dividing our student population. From now on everybody plays netball.”