When I was in school, it seemed like my job was to impress everyone but myself. Of course, and surely it does all over the Tristate. It happens in lunchrooms and boardrooms and not the least classrooms. As decades of educational research shows, female students become more silent and passive when boys are in the room. I feel a lot more comfortable here.
Girls ache to speak up here.
They love to be listened to. Their hands are up before the question is out of their teacher's mouth. And they do. There is a powerfulness in these girls, a claiming of ground they know is theirs. They are used to attention.