The Girl Effect

Apologies for the tone in advance, but I have to call complete and utter bullshit on this one.

It was a man who convinced my father to buy me a computer when I was but 8 years old. It was he who got me interested in all things tech.

It was a 16 year old boy who taught the 11 year old me how to write my first BASIC program, and under whose tutelage, I wrote my first game.

I attended a boarding school run by an institution which was started by a man (Edmund Rice) who devoted his life to education.

It was a man whose book inspired me to take up science at senior secondary school (The man was Carl Sagan, and the book in question was Cosmos).

While I do not oppose creating a world where everyone can aspire to his or her goals without significant obstacles, I cannot abide such denigration of a gender, be it male, female or otherwise.

Does anyone have any idea where he gets the figures that girls educate four people and boys educate no one? Is there any real substance to that claim?