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icon4.gif Are women more intelligent than men?  [message #55358] Tue, 13 January 2009 07:20 Go to previous message
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For the past several months I have been obsessing over this particular question. Certainly there is considerable evidence to indicate that there is a problem educating men/boys. But is this "boy crisis" in educationdue to some innate biological functioning that gives women the advantage, or is it due to changes in the education system that give the advantage to women, or might it be due to socialization and the redefining of the maculine roles in society?

However, there is a lot of disagreement, mostly from feminist groups who claim that the "boy crisis" doesn't really exist. Instead the reason boys are doing so poorly in school is actually a racial problem and one of socioeconomics. Middle class and upper class caucasian boys perform equally as well as girls in those classes and only Hispanic males and African American males of lower socioeconomic stature perform below girls with similar backgrounds.

Refuting this is mounting evidence that boys are being outperformed by girls in nearly every subject at every level of education across the board in the industrialized world. Girls begin school with better reading and language abilities and equal ability in math. Throughout school the gap in reading and language widens. 4 times as many boys are diagnosed with ADHD and are medicated. Boys get 70% of the Ds and Fs. Boys drop out at higher rates. Nearly 60% of college enrollment is women and women graduate from college at a higher rate. more than half of all graduate students are women and women outnumber men in medical school and law school.

Just wondering what you guys might think of the changing roles of men in the world. With women about to become dominant in society at all levels because of better education, what will become of men?

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