Time all this crap was stopped. My mum got into to grammar school and was the only one from her street and family who Did, she did well at school, but my grandad, who was a good and decent man by and large, told her she wasn't to go to University as that wasn,t for a girl. She became a nurse but I asked her not long ago was there anything she,d regretted in life and she said she,d wanted to be a Doctor but her dad wouldn't allow it - she really looked sad about it.i think their might have been a class dimension too. but I,m gobsmacked a woman in 2013 can be as blinkered as my grandad in 1952!