Discussion: The Gender Gap

Your assignment should also include a discussion of the issue of the gender gap in education, based on the article “The Boys at the Back” but also on a video and a text from the internet. Here we give you some input on possible points for the discussion.

According to Christina Hoff Sommers in “The Boys at the Back”, today’s issue with the gender gap in education is no longer about girls’ access to education but about boys performing more poorly than girls.

According to Sommers, this is partially due to the American educational system which neither accommodates the way boys learn, nor helps the boys to improve how they learn.

While the video “As gender roles change, are men out of step?” acknowledges the same gender gap in education (boys achieve po...