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Read the box article, Post a 5-7 sentence paragraph answering the question:  Are males being left behind? What do you think?

Read the box article, Post a 5-7 sentence paragraph answering the question:  Are males being left behind? What do you think?

Social Psychology (10th Edition)
Social Psychology (10th Edition)
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Author:Elliot Aronson, Timothy D. Wilson, Robin M. Akert, Samuel R. Sommers
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Read the box article, Post a 5-7 sentence paragraph answering the question:  Are males being left behind? What do you think?

Sociology in Focus Gender Today: Are Men Being Left Behind? Not everyone is convinced that boys and men below those earned by girls. Later on, a smaller share of boys will graduate from high school. Even the suicide rate for young men is almost five times higher than that for young women. Taken to- gether, such data have led some people to charge that our society has launched a war on boys. So what's happening to the men? One argu- ooking around the college campus, it would be easy to think that gender stratification favors females. The latest data show that are so bad off. It is true that most violent crime involves males, but for the last fifteen years crime rates have fallen. Girls may be outperforming boys in the classroom and on some standardized tests. but the scores boys earn have never been higher. And, when all is said and done, don't men still run 57 percent of college students are women and, be- cause they are more likely to complete their program of study, women earn 59 percent of all associate and bachelor's degrees. In addition, on most cam- puses, when it comes to academic awards, women are overly represented among the winners. As many analysts see it, the pattern of women outperforming men is not limited to college. In the early grades, boys are twice as likely as girls to be diagnosed with a learning disability, receive prescribed medication, or be placed in a special education class. Most disciplinary problems in the schools involve boys; just about all the school shootings and other acts of serious violence are carried out by boys. Boys earn grades that fall ment is that the rise of feminism has directed a the country? And the whole world? great deal of support and attention to girls and women, ignoring the needs of boys and men. Others claim that too many boys suffer from the absence of a father in their lives; girls can use their Join the Blog! Are males being left behind? What do you think? Go to MySocLab and join the Sociology in Focus blog to share your opinions and experiences and mothers as role models but what are fatherless boys to do? Still others suggest that our indus- to see what others think. trial way of life (which favored masculine strength and skills manipulating objects) has given way to an information-age culture that is far more verbal, Sources: Sommers (2000), von Drehle (2007), Lamm (2010), and Paton (2010). favoring females.
Transcribed Image Text:Sociology in Focus Gender Today: Are Men Being Left Behind? Not everyone is convinced that boys and men below those earned by girls. Later on, a smaller share of boys will graduate from high school. Even the suicide rate for young men is almost five times higher than that for young women. Taken to- gether, such data have led some people to charge that our society has launched a war on boys. So what's happening to the men? One argu- ooking around the college campus, it would be easy to think that gender stratification favors females. The latest data show that are so bad off. It is true that most violent crime involves males, but for the last fifteen years crime rates have fallen. Girls may be outperforming boys in the classroom and on some standardized tests. but the scores boys earn have never been higher. And, when all is said and done, don't men still run 57 percent of college students are women and, be- cause they are more likely to complete their program of study, women earn 59 percent of all associate and bachelor's degrees. In addition, on most cam- puses, when it comes to academic awards, women are overly represented among the winners. As many analysts see it, the pattern of women outperforming men is not limited to college. In the early grades, boys are twice as likely as girls to be diagnosed with a learning disability, receive prescribed medication, or be placed in a special education class. Most disciplinary problems in the schools involve boys; just about all the school shootings and other acts of serious violence are carried out by boys. Boys earn grades that fall ment is that the rise of feminism has directed a the country? And the whole world? great deal of support and attention to girls and women, ignoring the needs of boys and men. Others claim that too many boys suffer from the absence of a father in their lives; girls can use their Join the Blog! Are males being left behind? What do you think? Go to MySocLab and join the Sociology in Focus blog to share your opinions and experiences and mothers as role models but what are fatherless boys to do? Still others suggest that our indus- to see what others think. trial way of life (which favored masculine strength and skills manipulating objects) has given way to an information-age culture that is far more verbal, Sources: Sommers (2000), von Drehle (2007), Lamm (2010), and Paton (2010). favoring females.
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