It's no secret that for about the past ten years now, young girls outperform young boys on an educational level in the Western world. This painting seems to be about demanding respect for that fact. Everything out the image has been scaled to emphasize female superiority. We have a girl standing, aloof and from a distance, observing a boy (note how he's been made to appear even smaller by the scale) amusing himself by chasing a simple circle in the distance. Meanwhile she's wrestling with a fairly complex maze. She's apparently light years ahead of him in terms of problem solving ability.
There may be a secondary message in this piece by James Jean, too. Note how the struggles of the boy are out in the open. Everybody can see that he's chasing his circle. The girl keeps her much more complicated problem hidden out of sight behind her. Do women suffer silently with more troublesome problems than men speak aloud?