This week's reading has been my favorite so far because I feel that young male and female children tend to be placed in assumptions may hinder one's ability to grow. Males especially suffer from this inequalities in the education system because they are seen as the tough mentally mathematical or scientific student. My question is, why can't female student be just as good as the males in those subject area. One great and prime example of this inequality is while I was taking a math course in high school, my teacher always called on the male students to go up on the board and solve math questions. You barely saw the females go up and solve any of the problems because they feared that the males in the class would make fun of them.
One thing I noticed while reading such articles is that we often limit the boys in our education system. Boys often play video games and play aggressive sports which becomes apart of who they are. We often oversee that these boys, do have much emotions as their genders' counterpart. We often refrain our young males from expressing themselves emotionally because society sees it as a "female trait" which I believe affects males and females in their career paths. I found this excellent youtube clip that questions this gender inequality in education.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qfajx0RqLo
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