White women in the UK are now more likely than anybody else to get the best education on offer, after beating men for the first time.
They are due to become the most educationally privileged demographic after both Oxford and Cambridge made proportionally more offers to females than males.
Women have long outperformed men at earlier points in their education. Government figured reviewed by Heat Street show a 7.9% attainment gap at age 16, and a 6.2% gap at age 18.
The only top institutions in Britain at which you are more likely to get in as a man than a woman are Imperial College London, the London School of Economics and Warwick University, all of which focus on maths and science.
The tipping point in the university gender balance was revealed in new figures published by UCAS, the body which manages UK university admissions.
In absolute terms, men were still given 30 more offers at the University of Cambridge, while at Oxford the figures were equal.
But the difference is proportionally much smaller than the population gap – there are more young men than women in the UK – so women have a better chance of being let in.
According to a report in The Times of London, women are overall 9.6% more likely to get a university offer, and tend to be given more lenient admission targets to meet.
Many celebrated the news as an example of women’s progress. However, it does nothing to help the plight of poor white men in the UK – now the worst educational performers of all, and a stated priority for new Prime Minister Theresa May.