Gender games by david sadker biography

Remember when your elementary school teacher would announce the teams for the weekly spelling bee? "Boys against the girls!" There was nothing like a gender showdown to liven things up.

Apparently, some writers never left this elementary level of intrigue. A spate of recent books and articles takes us back to the "boys versus girls" fray but this time, with much higher stakes.

May's Atlantic Monthly cover story, "Girls Rule," is a case in point.

Gender games by david sadker biography

The magazine published an excerpt from The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers, a book advancing the notion that boys are the real victims of gender bias while girls are soaring in school.

Sommers and her supporters are correct in saying that girls and women have made significant educational progress in the past two decades.

Females today make up more than 40 percent of medical and law school students, and more than half of college students. Girls continue to read sooner and write better tha