But while a focus on reading tends to highlight the relative under-performance of boys, they do not lag behind in every respect.

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Once again it appears that women are penalized in ways that men are not for making the choice to have children and that their salaries continue to lag behind those of men.

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This does not please personal-injury lawyers, who argue that fixed costs are likely to lag behind the pace of legal inflation (that is precisely the point, of course).

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