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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Greed, dergulation, and wealth inequality aren’t the reason boys do much worse than girls in school right from age 5 onwards. Nor are Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson. Not every problem is rooted in ideology and culture wars.
The educational gap between boys and girls is wider than the gap between rich and poor students.
Educators and parents know this is a big problem. But as Reeves points out in his book and interviews, many of the people he spoke to about the education gap would not go on the record with their concerns, for fear of being branded conservative or anti-women. Just another instance where tribalism is the enemy of reason and good policy.
In 1972, the U.S. congress passed Title IX to address the gender disparity in college. At the time, the gap in undergraduate degrees favoured men by 13 percent. Today, the gap is 15 percent favouring women. I don’t see public champions of equity speaking out to address that disparity. Or the gender disparity among K-12 teachers, which research suggests plays a role in the growing gap in educational outcomes.
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I don't think it's a given that it's the educational system driving that. As infants and toddlers, girls generally advance faster than boys; at 18 months old, girls normally have 4x the vocabulary that boys do. So it's not all that surprising that that carries over into childhood literacy and communication.
And since at least the 1960s, girls have generally graduated high school at higher rates than boys, so why shouldn't they attend university at higher rates? Particularly since most of the non-university paths to well paid careers are in fields dominated by men.
And this also isn't necessarily a recent phenomenon or anything. Some data shows that median performance among women in post-secondary education has consistently been higher than among men for the last 100 years.