In high school, girls are more likely to be in clubs, student government, on school newspapers, receive better grades, be valedictorians and salutatorians, win scholarships, and have higher professional aspirations. In contrast, they have fewer discipline problems and drop out less. This change is occurring for many reasons. Our sons are often being raised only by their mothers, then entering elementary schools with almost all female teachers. Girls have role models.
Boys have gangs.
Yet our daughters are still being treated like disadvantaged minorities with federal programs like Girl Power focusing millions of dollars on our daughters' special needs while no program focuses on our sons' special needs. Nothing tells the story more dramatically than our sons' and daughters' suicide rates. As feminism has helped our daughters get love and respect from being whoever they want to be, our daughters' suicide rate has declined. Meanwhile, our sons' suicide rate has soared. Start with the power of our children's first love.