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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does excelling academically from a young age actually help girls? No matter how well girls do in school, they run into the same roadblocks in their careers, and the correlation between slightly higher grades and test scores, and professional success, just isn't there.

I mean, if we want to talk about whether boys are less happy than they used to be, or struggling more with executive function, I think that's an interesting conversation. But the fact that boys, on average, lag behind girls in school? I don't think it really impacts them much, and I think the pressure on girls to excel at school can be negative.

I wouldn't say the kids are all right, but I don't lose sleep over the fact that boys are getting slightly lower grades and test scores than girls in K-12. [/quote]

There is plenty of information about post high school for boys and men.  Since you have somehow never heard any of this, I'll post some of it later.

Or you could be curious about the future for girls and boys yourself and look at these issues.  Guess not.[/quote]

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