Despite men still dominating the arts at the top end, heading cultural institutions, directing movies, their work getting huge auction prices, most of those starting a career in the arts are women. Girls make up 90 per cent of performing-arts students. At the University of the Arts London, where I am Chancellor, 70 per cent of its nearly 18,000 students studying mainly visual art are female. As well as being brought up as potential breadwinners, boys are conditioned to be poorer communicators and less in touch with their emotional bodies, hence they think the arts are not for them.
