Anthropological question re: Gender

[Anonymous]

I am taking an unscientific DCUM poll...my daughter was born in 2005 and all of her class cohorts have been majority male. I toured some schools (private and public) and found that classes skewed majority male. For example, 3 or 4 girls to 15 boys! After seeing this more than a few places, I am wondering if there are actually less girls in the 2004-05 cohort of school kids!? What do you think, am I just seeing weird samples or is your child's second grade class boy heavy too?

[Anonymous]

DD was born in 2005. Her second grade class is evenly split between boys and girls. It was the same in K and first as well. MOCO public.

[Anonymous]

PP here. I do have a friend in DC with a child the same age. Her DD's kindergarten class had almost twice as many boys as girls.

[Anonymous]

I have a 2007 girl and class is skewed male too - nearly 2 to 1.

[Anonymous]

(Ours is not a school that manipulates classes to even things out)
2002 girl and class is 3:1 female. Class below hers is an almost even split. Class above hers is more than 2:1 male.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a 2007 girl and class is skewed male too - nearly 2 to 1.

I have a 2007 boy and when he was born, he was the only boy in the nursery at Georgetown the three days he was there. His K classroom is evenly split, however.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a 2007 girl and class is skewed male too - nearly 2 to 1.

I have a 2007 boy and when he was born, he was the only boy in the nursery at Georgetown the three days he was there. His K classroom is evenly split, however.

I have a 2007 girl and her class has always been 50:50, since age 2 to present.

[Anonymous]

Doesn't IVF tend to skew more to boy babies?

[Anonymous]

Any more 2004-05 data to contribute? I have an older child as well and that class has historically been more even. I was just polling because the skew in my 2005 kid's age group seemed to be the case at multiple places (private, DCPS, etc.)

[Anonymous]

My kids were born in 2003 and 2005 and have always been in majority-male cohorts.

[Anonymous]

My daughter's class is 05/06 kids and it is overwhelmingly female.

[Anonymous]

DS was born in 2005 and his class is evenly divided B/G. I was curious to see that this was a big surge year in number of kids born in several of the schools I know.

[Anonymous]

Funny how this happens. My boy's
DCPS class has 4 boys and 10 girls.

[Anonymous]

I have a boy born in 2004. Last year his class was nearly entirely boys, this year at a different school its split a bit more evenly but still skews towards boys.

My other son was born 2006. His K class and all the other K classes at his school are heavily female dominated.

Even in our neighborhood, by older child has other boys to play with his age, but my younger doesn't because they are all girls. (I've noticed that if there are only a couple of girls they will play a boy, but not when there are a pack of girls and one boy)

[Anonymous]

18:38 here. Just wanted to add that when I had my first son, everyone I knew who was pregnant around the same time had a boy. This was around 8 different people in multiple states.

This year of the 4 ladies I know who were pregnant, they all had girls.