In this article, the author talks about the cultural bind on the American male. The process starts with conception. If the spermatozoid that fertilizes the egg contains only X chromosomes a girl will be produced. If a single Y chromosome out of the 24 produced by the father is included, the baby will be a boy. From this point on the girls have a pronounced genetic edge on the boys in many ways. Not only is the infant mortality rate higher among boy babies, but the girls will have, in the main, a longer life expectancy. Most of them will survive their husbands. The boys will be sick more frequently and they are prone to many more diseases. On psychological tests, as a group, girls always score higher in the verbal section than do boys; the boys do correspondingly better on the use of mathematical symbols. This is an invariant sex difference. And people must note that college admissions officers invariably give more weight in their indexes to the verbal score when predicting academic achievement in the college program. The author illustrates the "sex gap" on college admissions by creating a story, which could be a true one. The author believes that there is enough data to indicate the "sex-gap" as a national phenomenon. It is not restricted to any one school district or section of the country. Studies are now in progress which, to date, have maintained the same male-female achievements ratios in college as pertain to high schools.