Despite considerable progress in educational attainment over the last few decades, Quebec continues to do poorly when it comes to dropout rates, particularly among boys. In 2021, there were 234,000 men who had no secondary school diploma. Among 25-to-34-year-olds, 12% had neither a diploma nor any proper qualifications, the worst performance of any Canadian province. This under-education of boys represents a substantial loss of potential productivity. A CIRANO study (Connolly and Lange, 2025) shows that if the problem were seriously addressed and boys’ dropout rates decreased to the level of girls’, men, and society as a whole, would make major gains. Achieving this parity would, by the next two to four decades, cut in half the number of men who were missing the needed requirements for the labour market.