“The world has gotten more verbal; boys haven’t,” Richard Whitmire. Educators and administrators always had a desire to notice which students were facing difficulties within the classroom. Since the 1990s, they were able to specifically pinpoint what students were struggling; the female students. Years later, educators began to look at, what they called the gender gap, yet again to see if female students were improving their performances within the classrooms. Female students were improving their performances with flying colors, yet the male students scores and results showed concerning data. The gender gap, between male and female students, within education is a debate that has been researched habitually over the years only to show evidence …show more content…
Many professors and teachers within schools were concerned about whether or not the females in their classes were able to withstand male dominated classrooms and school districts (Gender Gap). In 1992, there was a study shown that female students didn’t receive the same amount of attention or help within classes (Where the Girls Are). Females were experiencing a sexism within the schools, especially grad school where the classes were mostly men in the 1990s. Also many female students were having difficulty with mathematics, sciences, technology, and engineering (STEM) based classes (Gender Gap). The difficulty in school wasn’t only the fact that they were struggling, but the intimidation was a huge factor since those particular classes for degrees were becoming welcoming to women. Education was suddenly changed for the better after organizations were developed and articles were written to help the education of females (Where the Girls Are). These organizations and articles gave the women the attention they needed to be able to turn their education roles around so that they would be …show more content…
Within the article, Why Boys Can’t Keep Up, Whitmire discusses ways to improve the education system to improve schooling for male students. Discussing heavily about whether or not parents are a contributing factor, Whitmire said that parents need to encourage their children and be attentive to what teachers are telling them at conferences (Why Boys Can’t Keep Up). There are red flags that teachers say that proves it’s an issue with teachers instead. If teachers are saying that it’s normal for male students to be behind in a class, those particular teachers tend to not give extra attention to the male students that need help within their classes (Why Boys Can’t Keep Up). Instead, the teachers should be concerned and willing to make changes in their teaching techniques to adapt to their students to benefit them and also give extra help with tutoring or having a group of students stay after school. In the other article that Whitmire contributed to, he states that there are a few specific things that need to be adjusted to attended to that will help all male students succeed. A few examples of his suggestions would be increased funding to tutoring and mentoring, creating a better environment for male students for interest, and having teachers develop the
After decades of fighting for women to have the same education as men and for the policy to be reformed. It has clearly payed off since girls and women are striving academically. The issue in this, is that not enough attention and assistance are given to boys and men. For example, Sommers mentions that in 1997 only 45% of college full time enrollment were men.
Deborah Tannen, who is a professor of linguistics, says in her essay, "How Male And Female Students Use Language Differently", that after she made her book, “You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation” that one of the unintended benefits was that she gets to reevaluate her teaching strategies and see how male and females act differently in class. As you read through her essay you can tell that Deborah Tannen wants her readers to think about why males tend to speak more in discussions than females and the reason for this difference in the classroom and also how we can improve the classroom for both men and women.Although Tannen tends to get off topic and doesn 't have much evidence to back up some of her claims, she states
Females nowadays are said to be earning more degrees than males. The idea of men being careless and irresponsible towards knowledge would immediately pop into your head. People assume boys are the problem regarding education but they in fact are not, schools are the issue that we should be discussing. Amanda Ripley (2018), in “Boys Are Not Defective”, suggests that there are people who say that girls always outperform boys in education and there are people who say boys are willing to study if they have a positive impact from their teachers and school.
An ever changing, yet common issue, in today's generation revolves around how society views gender. The general consensus dictates that gender, as a whole, is a spectrum, rather than a standard set for each individual male and female to follow throughout everyday life. However, there are those individuals who wish to remain reluctant in changing their view of society. Some believe it is better to allow the education system to be segregated by gender, in order to provide more resources to both girls and boys. One person in favor of this public education reform is David Brooks, a neuroscientist who published the article titled “The Gender Gap at School.” A thorough analysis of the effects of literature on men and women, biological factors
There is a lot of compelling evidence to support the view that changes in the education system has resulted in differences in educational achievement between males and females. There is no denying that the statistics show girls are outperforming boys at every level in education, but the question is whether this is largely related to changes in the assessment process and the way each of the genders is educated or whether there are other factors causing the differences.
Society’s understanding of gender roles debate about gender equity and have always been connected to the social roles that men and women we assigned to shape Americans views of education for girls and boys. What has also been affected is race and social class between females and males who attend schools. Ideas of what women and men are suppose to be and do have cut across different classifications. Ending unfairness in schools has rested on change to gender roles mainly women.
Historically males have been the primary beneficiaries of education. It’s a man’s world, men are the creators of civilizations, laws and education in America. Men have created a system where they can be cater too in every way possible. Men usually have first pick of what they want to do with their life, they tend to have a choice whether to attend college. Woman before did not have much of a choice to attend college to seek a career, woman have usually gotten marry and raised kids. Conlin says “The gender gap also has roots in the expectation gap, in the 1970’s boys
It is no secret that, in general, boys and girls differ in their learning styles. Capitalizing on these differences could advance classroom performance. With on-going concerns about student success in school, any changes in the classroom that could increase student achievement should be considered. Recognizing the learning differences between boys and girls, one of the changes that could be instituted is single-gender classrooms.
Whilst there are factors outside school, internal factors also impact gender differences in educational achievements hugely. According to Tony Sewell, boys fall behind in education because schools have become more 'feminised', as indicated in Item A. This means that feminine traits such as methodical working and attentiveness have
Throughout history, gender inequality has shown to be an issue across the globe, especially in the workplace. Men have always had a greater and more powerful presence in careers of all kinds. Today, in the sports marketing industry, this proves to be true as women constantly battle to make advances within their companies and outshine their male colleagues. The purpose of this paper is to explore the issue of the “gender gap” in the business world, specifically sports marketing for the National Football League and how this issue may be solved: by presenting a sense of self-confidence in professional women.
As discussed in a recent essay by Saul Kaplan “The Plight of Young Males”, there is a serious academic gender achievement gap in the United States and as I will discuss, around the world. Young women are doing significantly better than young men, and the results are shocking. In the latest census, males make up 51 percent of the total U.S. population between the ages of 18-24. Yet only 40 percent of today’s college students are men. Since 1982, more American women than men have received bachelor’s degrees. In the last ten years, two million more women graduated from college than men. As Kaplan reveals, the average eleventh-grade boy writes at the level of the average eighth-grade girl. He also states that women dominate high school honor rolls and now make up more than 70 percent of class valedictorians. Kaplan says, “I am happy to see women succeeding. But can we really afford for our country’s young men to fall so far behind,” (733)?
We have all heard about the gender wage gap on the news or in the current debates, but why is it any concern to you? I understand that this issue might not apply to a college student; however, you need to be aware of this issue since it could affect your major and future profession. Surprisingly, this issue even applies to males. Some argue that women are facing a wage gap because they choose more flexible professions, lack negotiation skills, and produce less as many hours as men mostly because they are assumed to devote more time to children. I disagree, because women should have the right to earn same amount of money as a man regardless of their personality,
Did you know that single-sex classrooms are the worst classes ever? Over the past decade, single-gender classrooms have been opened in at least 230 schools in the rural, suburban, and the urban areas. Single-gender classrooms are classrooms where either young girls’ are in one class together, or young boys are in another class together. Single-sex classrooms were created because studies showed that boys and girls learn differently and they could benefit from being in a classroom with peers to whom they can relate. Since 2008, single-gender education has been the key to improved educational performance among boys and girls throughout the years. Today, gender differences among girls and boys are steadily rising in the classrooms they are in,
When you send your children off in the morning to go to school, no matter what grade they are in whither it be elementary, junior high, or senior high, you expect that they will receive the best education that they can get. They should be asked challenging questions, encouraged and called upon to participate in class, they should also be given as much help as they need to secede by the teacher. However, this is most commonly not the case. Parents and the children themselves are unaware of what is going on because gender bias is not a noisy problem. Most people are unaware of the secret sexist lessons that occur every day in classrooms across the country. In this essay I will use two essay's from the reader:
Gender equity in terms of education is about the socialization of men and women and the results of this process on the life outcomes of the two genders (Husen & Postlethwaite, 1994). In the United States, the education system is required to treat males and females equally. There has been much research done to compare the genders in all areas. In the past, research has found that women fall far behind men in many areas such as math, and science, but men lag behind women in certain areas as well. Over the years, many provisions have been made with the goal of equalizing the treatment of girls and boys in public education. These improvements are proven successful as women, as well as men, are advancing in areas where they tend to lag