enchmarks, and national reporting by education systems.
             Some commentators in the debate have linked boys' poorer performance to a 'feminisation' of schooling, as an increasing proportion of females have come to comprise the teaching profession, particularly in primary school (Buckingham, 2000). Indeed, the concentration of women at all levels has increased over the past decade.
             Some suggest that boys' learning problems are paralleled by difficulties in the workforce for many men, especially working-class men. As work is increasingly based on skill, rather than muscle, it suggested, men have lost the edge they once had. Women are gaining the majority of the jobs in vocations that are growing: residential care, computer and data processing, health services, business services, and child care. This points to the collapse of many traditional labour markets for males, as well as the nostalgia for a perceivably untroubled. While an elite group of men clearly continues to do well, many do not.
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