[StatesEnemy]

Hmmm.... it seems this is the same type of splittail that was blaming boys (men) when Barbie was lamenting upon th difficulty of math.

Bring back free for all recess, stop persecuting boys for roughhousing and eating sandwiches in the shape of "assault weapons", and bring back 'hands on' science classes.

[OpusatFR]

Of course these women are to blame.

I had to pull my oldest son out of gubmint school when his third grade (female) teacher punished him constantly for being a boy. Her statement to me, "I don't like little boys."

It's too bad I was always taught to be a lady.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

"Worse, the implicit solution sounds disturbingly close to advocating rolling back gains for girls to address our concerns about boys. "

GOD FORBID that someone would express concern for the welfare of boys in schools!

This is simply unacceptable and must be stopped immediately.

This 'implication' (some idea in her head) cannot be tolerated, while anti male feminists have run the table in schools for 30 years.

[independentmind]

Nor did it mention that women's participation in computer science courses actually has been declining for the past 20 years.

Do you think this is the result of job discrimination?

Perhaps men, as a group, are more naturally suited for some jobs.

[JoeSchem]

Girls still overlooked

A Business Week report stated recently that MBA programs are one of a few remaining "old boy domains," but it failed to mention the comparable underrepresentation of women in computer and information science, technology and engineering courses and careers. Nor did it mention that women's participation in computer science courses actually has been declining for the past 20 years.

AAUW was founded more than a century ago, when education and employment opportunities were severely limited by gender, race and other social characteristics. Although great inequities still persist, it is true that women and girls have made great strides. These advancements, however, have never been at the expense of men and boys.

So if girls are behind, it's the men's fault, even in fields like computer science and engineering where the test scores are objectively measured. But if the boys are behind, it's their fault, even if the evidence is overwhelming that girls are receiving preferential treatment. What's most interesting is that the writer simply states that it's not the women's fault, and then adds nothing to support her point. This is feminist thinking: "I have said so, therefore it's true."

[SauronOfMordor]

We have the elementary grades being almost entirely staffed by women. College women get indoctrinated daily in feminism and the eeeevil of men (and boys). And we are to assume this does NOT carry over into the classroom then these women get their education degrees?

[quebecois]

"The flames of a gender war are being unnecessarily fanned, implying that educational achievement is a zero-sum game and that girls' achievements have somehow come at the expense of boys'"

This chick has a lot of balls to say this. The libs have spent 3 or 4 decades playing the "zero-sum game". How many times have we seen articles bemoaning the lack of black school performance? How many of these articles directly blame whites for the gap?

And the feminists have made blaming men for sex inequality into a religion.

Now that boys are falling further behind, she bristles at the suggestion that the same mentality that her ilk have been using might be directed back at her. The libs never cease to amaze me.

[IronJack]

Even within this article that supposedly addresses (and even admits) the disparity between educational attention being given boys versus that given girls, this writer serves principally as an advocate of MORE attention to GIRLS!!

But the educational gains of girls haven't come at the expense of boys. Nor has the "liberation" of women come at the expense of men.

And Brutus is an honorable man ...

[JudgemAll]

Yawn, as if another layer of fix in schools is going to help... as if "schools" and "programs" were the sole source of service in the US for kids ..... it's all blablabla in order to have some psuedo social "elite" come up with the voice and monopoly of educational services.

[EdReform]

Bump & Ping

[Billthedrill]

What hypocritical rot! This is the very same organization that has nearly broken its collective arm patting itself on the back for its support of the relentlessly zero-sum Title IX means of promoting "gender equity" at the expense of boys' sports in Ohio and New York. Now we are told that the very same measures that put Title IX into force are NOT the ones to be used to measure the lack of boys' advancement in non-sports fields? And why not, may I ask?