Joanne Jacobs
Sad girls: Social isolation predates Covid
Fifty-seven percent of teenage girls felt "persistently sad or hopeless" in 2021, reports the Centers for Disease Control. That's double...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 29, 2022
- 2 min
Boy trouble
Boys are struggling in school around the world, not just in the United States, points out Kay Hymowitz in City Journal. Boys have lower...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 10, 2022
- 2 min
Why does Kalamazoo Promise work for women but not men?
The Kalamazoo Promise, which guarantees college scholarships to all graduates of the Michigan city's schools, has increased college...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 25, 2022
- 2 min
Biology denial: Girls can't win if sports go coed
I was forced to take four years of P.E. in high school in the late '60s. Illinois' gym teachers had a great lobby. Only three years of...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 22, 2022
- 3 min
Most boys should start school a year later than girls
Boys should start school a year later than girls, argues Richard V. Reeves in The Atlantic. Boys are slower to mature and benefit from...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 18, 2022
- 1 min
Reading 'Anne Frank' in Kabul
A secret book club for teen-age girls in Kabul, Afghanistan is reading The Diary of Anne Frank, reports Diaa Hadid for NPR. "Banned from...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 14, 2022
- 1 min
Girls just wanna play football
Girls are playing tackle football, reports Cathy Free in the Washington Post. Naliyah Rueckert joined a full-contact tackle football team...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 17, 2022
- 2 min
Raising an American girl
My daughter never had an American Girl doll, because I was too cheap to spend that kind of money, even if each doll had a history back...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 4, 2022
- 3 min
Gender lessons: Boy parts, girl parts
gender identity, reports Laura Meckler in the Washington Post. “Seven states now require that curriculums include LGBTQ topics,” she...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 28, 2019
- 1 min
For Every 100 Girls/Women….
The table above is based on some of the items in the list “For every 100 girls….” that I featured last April on CD here. The list was...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 17, 2018
- 2 min
Black boys lack ‘a teacher who looks like me’
Boys do better with male teachers and non-white students better with a same-race teacher, studies show. Yet, 77 percent of teachers are...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 18, 2018
- 2 min
Title IX twisted: From soccer to sex harassment
Once a “reasonable equality-of-opportunity law,” Title IX has gone weirdly astray, writes Christina Hoff Sommers. “What explains the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 13, 2018
- 1 min
Girls call STEM come-ons ‘creepy’
Teen-age girls are groomed for the STEM lifestyle in summer coding camps. “With responses ranging from “squirming in discomfort” to...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 12, 2018
- 2 min
Drill and instill math skills
To learn math, drill and instill math skills, writes Barbara Oakley in the New York Times opinion column. If it’s hard, so much the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 21, 2018
- 1 min
Oh, theyby
There has to be a simpler way of avoiding gender stereotypes than refusing to admit that your twins are boys, girls or one of each....
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 7, 2018
- 2 min
. . . and ‘theyby’ makes three
New York magazine features parents who are raising “theybys” — children whose biological sex is kept a mystery, so they can avoid...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 31, 2018
- 2 min
Swedish preschools teach boys to dance, girls to yell
Swedish preschools encourage boys to draw, dance and play in toy kitchens, while girls are taught to shout “No!,” reports Ellen Barry in...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 22, 2018
- 1 min
Even confident, capable girls don’t study STEM
Girls who are high achievers in math, and confident about their ability, are less likely to major in math, engineering and science than...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 21, 2018
- 1 min
Equality widens STEM’s gender gap
In gender-equal Norway and Finland, 20 percent of college graduates in science, engineering and math are women, compared to 41 percent in...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 4, 2018
- 2 min
27% of kids are . . . what?
Twenty-seven percent of 12- to 17-year-olds in California identify as “nongender conforming,” according to a new UCLA survey. Take a...
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