In response to Mika Mitchell, I find her letter both overly negative and generally mostly incorrect. I believe females are encouraged by society to get into traditionally "male" occupations like the trades and Doctors while men are more discouraged by society to get into "female" occupations like nursing.
Numerous studies show Universities are comprised of over 55% female, and the trend is only increasing in that direction. Females are dominating advanced education, so if anything I would say that our Education system is failing the males, not the females.
Also, while there are certainly terrible events and a lot of hate still in this world, I can guarantee that a child born in Canada today has a much brighter future then one born 100 years ago. Tolerance and acceptance of others who are different than me or you still has a long ways to go, but I believe that acceptance of different religious beliefs, skin colour or sexual preference is miles ahead of where we were 50 or 100 years ago.
Warren Pineau