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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 10, 20241 min read
Boys can find uses for menstrual pads, but not in a good way
#TamponTim is in the news, tweets Kira Davis. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz requires schools to provide free menstrual products in all school...
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 3, 20242 min read
Taking the 'boy' out of Boy Scouts
The Boy Scouts aren't molding boys into men any more. They're letting youths be their authentic selves.
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 9, 20242 min read
Why boys don't read very much: They want manly courage -- not teen angst
Boys might read more if they were introduced to classic books with male heroes.
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Joanne Jacobs
Mar 5, 20241 min read
Schools need more male teachers, mentors, role models
More boys are growing up without fathers, and fewer men are becoming teachers, writes Richard V. Reeves, president of the American...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 10, 20233 min read
Is misogyny real? The present is female
Misogyny is a myth, argues John Tierney in City Journal. It's not just that "the future is female." The present is too. In the past,...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 4, 20232 min read
Help boys aspire to 'heroic masculinity'
Boys need to know that masculinity isn't "toxic," writes Caitlin Flanagan in The Atlantic. They can aspire to "heroic masculinity,"...
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Joanne Jacobs
Feb 18, 20231 min read
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, 20222 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Oct 10, 20222 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 25, 20222 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 22, 20223 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 18, 20221 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 14, 20221 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jul 17, 20222 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 4, 20223 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Dec 28, 20191 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 17, 20182 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 17, 20182 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 13, 20181 min read
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 12, 20182 min read
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...
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