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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
I don't buy that a "systematic institutional and media bias against boys and young men" exists.
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Boys are falling further and further behind girls at every level of school, are five times more likely to be prescribed with behaviour-altering drugs, four times more likely to drop out of school, and are fifty per cent less likely to go on to post-secondary education - and you don't think there's any chance there's institutional bias against boys in the education system? A system where over 70 per cent of teachers are women?
Is there any logical reason why the gender disparity in STEM fields has attracted enormous media attention and public policy action, while the gender disparity favouring women in pretty much every other field of study, including law, medicine, accounting, and teaching receives no media attention? When I've mentioned to people that women make up 62 per cent of medical school students in Canada today, and 55 per cent of law school students, they're often surprised. Why do you think those figures aren't as widely publicized as the figures around STEM?
At one point in my daughter's parent-teacher interviews a couple months ago, the teacher exclaimed "If only they could all be little girls!" The other two teachers in the classroom at the time both laughed and nodded.
Institutional bias against boys? Impossible. We live in a patriarchy!
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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
I also don't think dragging out a story from 2012 is proof of anything other than something for people to bitch about.
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The article I posted is six months old. I'm pretty sure the Ryerson case is still ongoing.