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Since the mid-1970's, educators have made a virtue of ignoring gender differences. The assumption was that by teaching girls and boys the same subjects in the same way at the same age, gender gaps in achievement would be eradicated. That approach has failed. Gender gaps in some areas have widened in the past three decades. The pro-portion of girls studying subjects such as physics and computer science has dropped in half. Boys are less likely to study subjects such as foreign languages, history, and music than they were three decades ago.
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Today, the results of the first national survey to explore gender differences in ADHD are being released. This survey of children with ADHD, their parents, teachers and the general public examines perceptions about gender differences in ADHD and the different ways boys and girls with ADHD suffer. A sample of some of the surprising results:
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There's a funny gender test in Chapter 11 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, where Huck is clocked at an old woman's home while dressed as a girl. She tosses Huck a piece of lead to throw at rats that scurry through the house, and he catches the lead by clasping his knees together. When Huck throws the piece of lead at the next rat, the old woman busts him. Luckily for Huck, she assumes he's a runaway apprentice and gives him pointers on female comportment:
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Forget everything you think you know about gender differences in children. Forget "boys are competitive, girls are collaborative." In recent years, scientists have discovered that differences between girls and boys are more profound than anybody guessed. Specifically:
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[A]t secondary level, of 75 countries surveyed, only 22 are considered on course to meet the 2005 gender parity goal, while 21 will need to make additional efforts and 25 are far from the goal. At secondary level, the gender gap is most pronounced in South Asia (44% of boys of secondary school age in secondary school compared with only 36% of girls) and in the Middle East and North Africa (54% of boys compared with 43% of girls).
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