I've heard about boys falling behind girls...

...in U.S. education: the main crux of that argument is that more girls and fewer boys are attending American colleges and universities, which might be a legitimate problem. But when it comes to the battle of the sexes among the world's grown-ups, I think the gents' side is still doing pretty well. Assorted stats from an item in The Independent, a UK paper:

As of Wednesday, March 8, 2006...

• 1% of the titled land in the world is owned by women.
• 21% of the world's managers are female.
• 9% of judges, 10% of company directors and 10% of top police officers in the UK are women.
• 85 million girls worldwide are unable to attend school, compared with 45 million boys. In Chad, just 4% of girls go to school.
• 700,000,000 women are without adequate food, water, sanitation, health care or education (compared with 400,000,000 men).
• 67% of all illiterate adults are women.
• In the US, 35% of lawyers are women but just 5% are partners in law firms.
• 12 is the number of world leaders who are women (out of 191 members of the United Nations).
• Men directed 9 out of every 10 films made in 2004.