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Christina Hoff Sommers, a conservative education analyst, writes in her recent book, The War Against Boys, that schoolboys are "routinely regarded as protosexists, potential harassers and perpetuators of gender inequity" who "live under a cloud of censure." Sommers cites studies showing that boys come to school less prepared than girls, do less homework and get suspended more often. "For males, there's no social currency in being a straight-A student," says Clifford Thornton, associate dean of admissions at Wesleyan University. Although the latest figures show that college graduates earn, on average, almost double the wages of those with...
...Christina Hoff Sommers, a conservative education analyst, writes in her recent book, The War Against Boys, that schoolboys are "routinely regarded as protosexists, potential harassers and perpetuators of gender inequity" who "live under a cloud of censure." Sommers cites studies showing that boys come to school less prepared than girls, do less homework and get suspended more often. "For males, there's no social currency in being a straight-A student," says Clifford Thornton, associate dean of admissions at Wesleyan University. Although the latest figures show that college graduates earn, on average, almost double the wages of those with...
...Against Boys, conservative ideologue Christina Hoff Sommers blames liberal women for the boy crisis. Movement feminists, she says, cornered the market on victimhood for girls--and thus victimized boys. Gender-equity programs in schools only benefit girls, while boys are seen as "protosexists" and potential harassers. Sommers claims that most of the women in boys' lives--their teachers and counselors (and presumably their mothers)--don't understand masculinity and are threatened by it. Boys, she says, suffer when they're taught by women who want them to be in touch with their feelings; boys express themselves best through play...
...assailing the Atlantic's cover story and its author, Christina Hoff Sommers, whose attacks, she says, ignore the studies Gilligan published to back up her 1982 best-seller, In a Different Voice...
...Frankie Hoff, who heads the graduate studies program for East Asian Studies, says her staff rates candidates and then compares notes...