I don't think that that sentence was so much what Lois actually said in the previous statements, just a side note: "By the way, we should know that high-status boys are the beneficiaries of all this carry-on".

That assertion I tend to agree with (although there may be some exceptions), but Lois just didn't expand on it there. Perhaps because it's pretty self-evident, most of the time.

It's not so much As competing with other As for status so as to get Bs so much for boys, I think. Girls/women don't seem to compete for status as an end in itself as much as boys/men do. There are many many exceptions, of course, but it's pretty easy for a woman who seems to be all about gaining status to be tarred with the "dyke" brush, still. However, it's fine for a guy to be purely "success-orientated" without having to geneflect at the altar of "sacrificed (wo)manhood". High status men don't need to seduce their mates; I think the women still generally do.

</ insert standard disclaimer about <i>all men and all women not neatly falling into any categories defined>