When boys called out, teachers listened. But when girls called out, they were told to 'raise your hand if you want to speak'. While it may be true that boys get more attention in elementary school, due to a rowdier disposition, this cannot be considered proof of anti-female discrimination. The AAUW came up with yet another study, this one on sexual harassment, basing its report on a survey done by Seventeen magazine. This is called a self-selecting poll.
Professional pollsters know that all such polls are inherently biased.
A study of rape that has been accorded equally wide endorsement by the popular media was one done in 1985 by Ms. magazine and Mary Koss. Koss and her associates interviewed slightly more than 3,000 college women, randomly selected. They were asked ten questions about rape which defined it as penetration by penis, finger, or other object while being coerced by physical force or threats or while the woman is under the influence of alcohol. The study defined sexual victimization as yielding to sex play, though not intercourse, when a woman is overwhelmed by a man's continual arguments and pressure. This would be about one out of every thousand women.