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Here's 100 Years of Proof That Girls Are Better Students Than Boys. In all subjects, even math and science.
In 2006, Newsweek magazine declared it, loud, on their cover: America's boys were in crisis. Boys were falling behind their female counterparts in school. They were getting worse grades, lagging on standardized tests, and not attending college in the same numbers as girls. "By almost every benchmark," Peg Tyre, the author of the cover story, wrote, "boys across the nation and in every demographic group are falling behind." And so it began-the end of men, but also an ongoing conversation on how to better boys' performance in the classroom. From the article:
This "boy crisis," however, was based on an assumption: that males had previously been on top. Granted, there was evidence to support that idea. For one, educational institutions for most of modern history have been openly sexist, favoring boys. And traditionally, males had outperformed girls in standardized tests and in math and science. But "by the mid-1990s, girls had reduced the gap in math, and more girls than boys were taking high-school-level biology and chemistry," Tyre wrote.
The assumption that boys had been the better students didn't seem right to (married) researchers Daniel and Susan Voyer of the University of New Brunswick in Canada. "I've been collecting grade data for a long time," Daniel Voyer says in a phone interview. "Typically if you find gender differences, they are in favor of girls - it doesn't matter what it is. So it started to kind of puzzle me." And so the pair set out to test, collecting every study they could find on grades and gender since 1914 and crunching the numbers in a mega-meta analysis, the first of its kind.
While the girls' advantage is largest in reading and language studies, it exists for all subjects, even math and science. And though they tested data from across the world, the Voyers found the gender gap was largest in the United States.
What's most striking is that the gender gap held across the decades. If the boy crisis existed, they would have seen boys' performance peak and fall over time. That wasn't the case. "Boys have been lagging for a long time and ... this is a fairly stable phenomenon," the paper concluded.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 02 2014, @11:30AM
The future will be openly sexist, favoring girls.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday May 02 2014, @11:47AM
What's this sexist shit? Are you implying girls cannot raise to the level of lameness as boys in all subjects (even math and science)???
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 02 2014, @11:50AM
Girls will never be better rapists than boys.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 02 2014, @02:01PM
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Boxzy on Friday May 02 2014, @06:05PM
I think you just mistyped 'prosecuted'
Go green, Go Soylent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 03 2014, @07:04AM
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Friday May 02 2014, @04:39PM
Or we could continue fighting for a non-sexist world, like we have been for over a century now. Taking the idea the generalizations do not work well for intelligent, self-determinant individuals, beyond some statistical utility.
We don't have to accept that any person is better than any other for imagined and simplistic reasons.
(Score: 2) by velex on Friday May 02 2014, @04:55PM
It won't happen. Because feminism. Because [cis] women who, themselves want traditional gender roles, for whom feminism has a complete and utter blindspot. And the only alternative is the MRM (Men's Rights Movement). It's a world full of folks who want female hegemony, institutional gender discrimination, and handouts/privileges based on one's assigned gender at birth and folks who want traditional gender roles with wink-and-nod gender discrimination.
And I'd also point out that both movements are incredibly trans hostile---hostile against both assigned males that prefer living as female (she-males and their transsexual empire in the view of feminists; brainwashed, feminized, and failed men in the view of the MRM) and assigned females that prefer living as male (traitors to their gender in the view of feminists; the MRM lost me before I could find out what they think of trans men, but I'd bet most of them are completely unaware that such people as trans men even exist). It would be difficult to be hostile towards the idea that gender is anything other than the body part between the legs and to hold that the determination of one's gender at birth based on that body part is a final assignment to a gender caste despite any actual medical evidence to the contrary in a non-sexist world.
If only gender were like hair color. Everbody has one, nobody has a choice in what it is at birth, and it's not a problem if one wants to change it. (At least if one is a woman..., but I digress.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 02 2014, @10:22PM
Velex, you're full of shit on Slashdot and you're full of shit here.
(Score: 2) by velex on Saturday May 03 2014, @02:14PM
Well, then, log in and mod me down. BasilBrush was willing to open himself/herself to the possibility of mod points and even got a funny mod in the process.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday May 02 2014, @10:29PM
I see a LOT of resistance to all of these phenomenons among 20-somethings. Every week or so there's a new "meme" going around about how traditional gender roles can be feminist too; about how trans women are women too; etc. Not that sharing pictures on Facebook is gonna actually change anything, but the right attitudes *are* developing. These will be the next battlegrounds once more "traditional" LGBT rights become accepted.