The article mentions a number of troubling ways boys are doing worse than girls. Rates of suicide are much higher. There’s a gap in educational attainment:
On average, across every subject at GCSE, boys’ results are half a grade lower than girls’. At A-level, girls outperform boys by an average of more than a grade and a half across their best three subjects. Boys are also twice as likely as girls to be excluded from school, while in British universities, female students outnumber males by three to two.
In decades past, we rightly built programs to ensure that girls received a good schooling and were prepared for post secondary education. Boys need similar programs.
And despite this women on average are paid less than men. The results you mention are very old. They are at least 30 years old.
Still, those numbers are hiding important details, like how men outnumber women in stem for example in crazy numbers, like 9 to 1. And those domains where men outnumber women are way, way better paid. They are also hiding how women on average are not promoted as much as men despite better performances or degrees, and they don’t reach as high positions in companies than men.
Oh, and I’d be surprised if women who choose to stay at home to raise children were considered as unemployed the way all men are.
The article mentions a number of troubling ways boys are doing worse than girls. Rates of suicide are much higher. There’s a gap in educational attainment:
In decades past, we rightly built programs to ensure that girls received a good schooling and were prepared for post secondary education. Boys need similar programs.
And despite this women on average are paid less than men. The results you mention are very old. They are at least 30 years old.
Still, those numbers are hiding important details, like how men outnumber women in stem for example in crazy numbers, like 9 to 1. And those domains where men outnumber women are way, way better paid. They are also hiding how women on average are not promoted as much as men despite better performances or degrees, and they don’t reach as high positions in companies than men.
Oh, and I’d be surprised if women who choose to stay at home to raise children were considered as unemployed the way all men are.
Those issues need to be addressed as well.