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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I posted on the other thread. Actual studies on this conclude the achievement gap across the education spectrum is due to women having better executive function skills and their pre-frontal cortex developing earlier.

Which leads to... failure to launch, video game addiction, substance abuse, etc. and just generally not having their shit together.  In non-STEM fields there is now affirmative action for white men. They are getting in under lower standards to try to balance classes. And classes are still unbalanced. Look at the WM admissions numbers. [/quote]

Teacher and mother of a teen boy here. Girls “do school” better than boys on average and it is due to their superior executive function skills. I am not as “smart” as my teen son but I did MUCH better in school. Why? His EF skills are years behind a girl’s at this point. I’m sure moms of both sexes can understand. My son and my make students have trouble remembering to hand in completed work. They do it and either don’t physically hand it in or forget to turn it in on Google Classroom. That negatively affects their grade. Girls are better at everything school related- doing the work, handing it in on time, class discussions, being on top of their assignments etc. [/quote]

I just spent several minutes on google, and did not find any overwhelming evidence that girls develop executive functioning skills substantially (or at all) earlier than boys. I did find one interesting study out of Pakistan, where, as the researchers expected, they found boys had better executive functioning skills than girls, which in the discussion they attributed partly to the higher expectations on them.

But if you have research to share, that would be great.[/quote]

Here are some data and references for you:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e5a7/c2f4219ddcec5e693d2d848f6330bad57d73.pdf

"Two-thirds of students identified with LD are male (66 percent) while overall public school enrollment is almost evenly split between males (51 percent) and females (49 percent). This overrepresentation of boys occurs across different racial and ethnic groups."

https://www.ncld.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2014-State-of-LD.pdf

https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/learning-disabilities/help-information/learning-disability-statistics-/187687

https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/getting-started/what-you-need-to-know/do-boys-have-learning-and-attention-issues-more-often-than-girls[/quote]

Do LD occur at higher rates among boys or are they identified at higher rates among boys?  The early Yale studies on dyslexia point toward the later -- reading based disabilities occur at the same rate among boys and girls but boys are more likely to be referred for testing.  Having parented this situation, the common wisdom is that boys "fail noisily" and girls "fail quietly".  Girls are also more likely to use performance anxiety to compensate for mild LD.
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