Female students outnumber males two to one at the University of Jordan Across the Arab world, girls rule in school, writes Amanda Ripley in The Atlantic. In the workplace, women have limited opportunities, she writes. That doesn’t seem to matter in the classroom. (Jordan’s) girls outperform its boys in just about every subject and at every age level. At the University of Jordan, the country’s largest university, women outnumber men by a ratio of two to one—and earn higher gra