When girls started getting better performance than boys in schools?

I have seen several reports about girls doing better than boys in schools. Some people believe that is because the educational system nowadays more focus on memory and recite, and the others believe that the reasons are girls work harder and desire to succeed. In addition, more and more girls who do not have clear characteristics of female become popular now. Their target audience are wider, not only boys but girls. Girls around me are becoming more independent. They wear short hairs, do not wear dresses, and do not expect help from boys. Whatever the reasons of these phenomena, the result is that girls seem get higher status now.

However, do girls really become more powerful nowadays? From the definition from class, empowered girls reject boys, are social, are the lead, are complicated or contradictory, and are “real”. Actually, those empowered girls are not those who are neutral in appearance, but those who look like “girls” and also have desire to control. Those empowered girls are like princesses. To some extent, it is a good thing, because they want to fight for themselves. At the same time, they will be spoiled and become out of control. They will get mad easily, focus too much on appearance, and expect the coming of princes. If those empowered act this way, they will be loss their power.

The girls seem have made progress in fighting for equal power for themselves, but they must be very careful or they will be taken advantages of.