The new gender gap: From kindergarten to grad school, boys are becoming the second sex

Business Week
Michelle Conlin
May 26, 2003

Responding to recent press and books covering the ten-year decrease in boys' scholastic aptitude, this article utilizes stereotypes and anecdotal information to describe this important, complex issue. The researchers Conlin does interview work for social change:
Righting boys' problems needn't end up leading to reversals for girls. But some feminists say the danger in exploring what's happening to boys would be to mistakenly see any expansion of opportunities for women as inherently disadvantageous to boys. ''It isn't a zero-sum game,'' says Susan M. Bailey, executive director of the Wellesley Centers for Women. Adds Macalester's McPherson: ''It would be dangerous to even out the gender ratio by treating women worse. I don't think we've reached a point in this country where we are fully providing equal opportunities to women.''

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