Major Asian countries have always prioritized academics and treated it as a competitive entity. Many of these countries regard educational attainment in a similar way that Western society view sports. Citizens of countries like China, South Korea, and Japan put a lot of value on school and see it as a mechanism for the common citizen to advance in society.
It is notable that currently in the United States, there is a sex gap in education attainment in the sense that women are increasingly attaining more advanced educational degrees than men despite the fact that men are the more competitive sex. There’s been a lot of commentary on the fairness of this trend (See The rise of women). At the end of the day, education in and of itself is not strictly a feminine thing and should be treated in as a fair a process as possible.
Nevertheless, the current Western education system, which was originally designed primarily for White men is now seeing more women rise to the top to the point where women are starting to outnumber men in certain echelons. Is it not time to reassess the fairness of this sex imbalance? After all, for those who do have an innately competitive flair to school, which I surmise is the case for many high achievers, is it not the case that the playing field should be set in as fair a way as possible?
The Ivory Tower 
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