"High-income parents spend more time and money on their children, and invest in more stereotypical activities, researchers said, enrolling their daughters in ballet and their sons in engineering."
~ C. Miller & K. Quealy
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/13/upshot/boys-girls-math-reading-tests.html?
Maybe they're just training the girls to be thin.
“'The average incidence of eating disorders in the white middle-class population is 1 in 100. In classical ballet, it is one in five' says Dr Michelle Warren, an eating disorder specialist."
~ L. O'Sullivan
http://au-di-tions.com/anorexia-and-dance-looking-for-the-perfect-body-in-dance/
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