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It really is too bad that you chose to post the most biased selection from this article, for had you read any further you might have stumbled upon the following nugget:

Sax argues: Here's the paradox: coed schools tend to reinforce gender stereotypes.… There is now very strong evidence that girls are more likely to take courses such as computer science and physics in girls-only schools…. Boys in single-sex schools are more than twice as likely to study art, music, foreign languages, and literature as boys of equal ability attending comparable coed schools.

What you seem to advocate is maintaining stereotypical behavior, rather than encouraging the individual to succeed at whatever he or she is good at and wishes to pursue.

So you've got a gripe against women...big deal. I got a few gripes against some men, but that does not prevent me from interacting with them in a civil manner. As I've stated on another thread, I find men on the whole to be fascinating, but frustrating. However I'll put up with the frustration for the benefit of positive and mutually enriching social discourse.

Perhaps you might consider advocating same-sex schools to facilitate the growth of the individual. It would seem to me a better cause to champion the development of brain-power, regardless of gender, for our nation's continued preeminence in the world, rather than resorting to the old and tired mantra that "feminism" is entirely to blame for the current state of affairs.

There is now very strong evidence that girls are more likely to take courses such as computer science and physics in girls-only schools

Of course they are. If there were boys there, they would see how hopelessly inferior most of them are in those disciples. As there are females only, they will get a false sense of accomplishment.

It's kinda like saying more white kids will turn out for the basketball team if there were no blacks in the school.

However, there are always exceptions. I know some very, very good female I.T. people but they are technical book authors and/or teachers rather than hands-on.

What you seem to advocate is maintaining stereotypical behavior, rather than encouraging the individual to succeed at whatever he or she is good at and wishes to pursue.

Today, there is more "stereotype" present in the forced and unnatural programs of affirmative action and victim-based opportunity grants than there ever was before androgeny became a political agenda. Individual initiative is the ultimate sin of such policy, fiercely racist/sexist/anti-gay in its implementation - it knows no true measure of tolerance or reward for good qualities. Quite the opposite, it baits and enslaves our entire culture toward its current degenerate state.