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My mother, who was born in 1917, went to an all-girls high school in Elizabeth, New Jersey. She always said almost exactly what you say above, that a girl was president of the student council, a girl was leader of the band, etc., etc.

When she died in 2003, I found among her effects a biography that she had written for the senior residence she was living in, in which she attributed her "life-long feminism" to that experience. I did not know she identified as a feminist, although I knew she was one of the most egalitarian people I had ever met.

I have to wonder about single-sex education for boys; it seems like it's so frequently good for girls.