"Reach" for males is not the same as "Reach" for females

<p>Another article on this topic</p>

<p>[Affirmative</a> Action for Boys - TIME](<a href=“http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1727693,00.html?xid=newsletter-daily]Affirmative”>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1727693,00.html?xid=newsletter-daily)</p>

<p>I found it interesting that there is a reference that the gap persists once the students are on campus, even as the boys supposedly mature some. </p>

<p>“But the gap persists on campus, where women tend to win more honors, join more clubs, do more volunteer work. “We sit and talk about why no men are applying for leadership roles,” says Jason Zelesky, associate dean of students at Clark University in Massachusetts, which is 60-40 female.”</p>

<p>That statement is from a small college that has a somewhat science focus and that regularly wins 3-4 Goldwater Fellowships (science, math, engineering) a year. </p>

<p>And for all the talk of the “feminization” of education, one dean touches on the idea that maybe we simply aren’t holding males accountable for their lack of accomplishment, both academic and non academic. This article would seem to indicate that males are not only not performing at the same level as females before college, but that pattern persists once they reach the college campuses.</p>

<p>“I wonder if there’s a price boys pay for the “soft bigotry of low expectations.” The college deans I talked to worry that there is some message boys are not receiving, role models they are missing, that speaks to the importance of an education both broad and deep. “I found it harder to talk to guys in interviews, even after 40 years,” says Haverford dean Greg Kannerstein, “because they seem narrower in their interests than the women.” He wonders if schools and parents have wrapped boys in cotton, focused on “support” at the expense of accountability. “For a long time, guys were left on their own, which was not so great either,” he says. “Now maybe we’re shielding them a little too much.” That would be the crowning irony, if it turns out that girls emerge stronger somehow from having the game rigged against them.”</p>