A changed world is what strikes those of us brought up in the nineteen seventies and eighties where we are making some progress in the ability to present as you are in school or in scouting, girl, boy, non binary or transgendered.
Today, while inheritance doesn't have to, it remains more usual for a fathers business affairs to be taken over by a son and until the recent changes in succession laws, the first born male took over from the reigning monarch but families live on with their sons names.
Many of us would argue the advancement of equal opportunity employment, the ability of women to open and run bank accounts in their own right and of equal pay were right and proper in a society that values all.
Some trends in education, child care and the breakdown in traditional parenting however seem to disadvantage boys in particular and it seems to me be be just as right in its way for these to be addressed in order to raise a generation of boys to be the best men as it was to pave the way for girls having a bigger role and stake as women.
