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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  She was not complaining.  I also do not think she had some sort of meaty role behind the camera.  The knot in my stomach tells me that she has already accepted as normal that boys' ideas come first.

Where I am stuck is in how to address this with the camp.  What is it that the adults could have done differently?  The only thing I can come up with is that they should have paid more attention to equitably dividing time with the equipment among the kids.  But you all surely have more and better ideas.

I do appreciate the suggestions that she has to learn to advocate for herself.  She's 11, and it's a work in progress.  But equally I don't want to file all of this under "she needs to do better" when I know there is a sexism component that is out of her control, but within the power of the adults to, if not completely change, at least influence in a more positive direction.

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Jeez - just find out if she participated in other group projects where there were three girls and one boy.  The group dynamics would have been rather different.

Everyone knows that girls generally do better than boys now in high school and college.  You are making a BFD out of one incident at a middle school summer camp?

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This is what I find baffling.  I have one boy and one girl.  And in demanding DMV schools, the edge the girls have in executive functioning mean they are the ones calling the shots.  Lots of group work. And in a group of two boys and one girl doing group lab work, there is an 80% chance the one girl has sighed, picked up the assignment. Said: Evan, you’re the Math whiz. You do the calculations and charts.  Alex, you’re the strongest writer, you write the explanation. And I’ll do the graphs and put the report together.  You must have them to me by 8 tomorrow night. Then she will email them two reminders.  Any complicated project with three boys ends up getting a C, not because they can’t do the work, but because they can’t get themselves organized.

This is the reality of later pre-frontal cortex development in boys and weaker EF skills. We throw more academic demands at kids at a younger age, and boys brains literally can’t keep up. [/quote]

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