Girls were not considered worth educating. All we were fit for was keeping the home tidy and cooking our husbands’ dinners.
Indeed, I think you’ll have to go back further than when you were at school. It certainly didn’t occur in my primary school, where girls were the majority amongst the small group of pupils I competed with for number one position in class. It didn’t happen in the similar sized girls’ school adjacent to my secondary school either. Girls from there went on to just as many university courses, and at as good universities, as boys from my school. I didn’t keep in touch with many of them after that, but the ones I did hear something of included a high flying UN official, a board member of an international engineering company and a couple of very senior civil servants.