By: María Alejandra Pulgar, 10/04/21 “…“Historically, studies show that boys were more likely to hold positions of leadership within schools as well as graduate with higher rates. However, in the last few years, there has been such a push to have more girls take ownership of their educational future as well as understand the limitless READ MORE
Author: The Boys Initiative
OPINION: Too many young men are missing from college campuses like mine
by Tania Tetlow, 09/16/21 “…Nationally, 59 percent of college students are female; many campuses, like mine, have a gender imbalance, with the student body over 60 percent women and less than 40 percent men. And the gap only expands when we consider student retention; the six-year graduation rate is six percentage points lower for men READ MORE
Closing the growing gender gap in higher education
By Paul J. Luna and Charleita M. Richardson, 11/01/21 “…Several prominent media outlets recently called attention to this issue. Out of every 10 college students, The Wall Street Journal reported, about six are women while only four are men, and should this trend persist, there will soon be two women for every one man. The READ MORE
Education trial aims to tackle underachievement of boys
By Rebecca Black, PA, 10/22/21 “…Professor Brian Murphy, director of academic business development and responsible for widening participation at the university, said boys and young men are “seriously falling behind at every level of the education system”. “At Ulster University the participation rate for young men is now at 40% of our student population. Are READ MORE
Baby boys get less protective antibodies from pregnant moms with COVID-19 compared to girls, new MGH study suggests
By Alexi Cohan, 10/31/21 “…Pregnant women who get the coronavirus make fewer antibodies against the virus and transfer less immunity to their baby when having a boy compared to a girl, a new study out of Massachusetts General Hospital suggests. “We definitely saw that male fetuses ended up with less protective antibodies from mom,” said READ MORE
Social media is becoming increasingly toxic for boys’ body image, too
By Jason Nagata, 10/18/21 “…While Instagram’s impact on teenage girls’ body image made the news recently, few have thought about its effect on teenage boys and young men. Although there is a stereotype that eating disorders occur exclusively in females, males represent a third of people struggling with eating disorders. The masculine body ideal has READ MORE
How traits relate to brain activity may differ between autistic boys, girls
By Anna Goshua, 10/11/21 “…The new work bolsters the idea that the brains of autistic boys function differently from those of autistic girls. It should also serve as a warning to scientists to heed these differences when considering resting-state brain activity as a biomarker for autism, the researchers say….” Read the entire article: https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/how-traits-related-to-brain-activity-may-differ-between-autistic-boys-girls
Boys don’t cry? Survey finds men actually weep more than women — 4 times a month!
By Chris Melore, 10/21/21 “…Those heightened feelings of shame may be why men dealing with mental health conditions confessed more frequently to using coping behaviors like alcohol abuse (49%), substance abuse (40%), and self-harm (35%)…Those behaviors appear to be far less common among women…..” Read the entire article: https://www.studyfinds.org/men-cry-more-than-women
Study: Young boys who play sports less likely to have anxiety, depression
By HealthDay News, 09/27/21 “…We found that 5-year-old boys who never participated in sports were more likely between the ages of 6 and 10 to look unhappy and tired, had difficulty having fun, cried a lot, and appeared fearful or worried,” Pagani said…Also, boys who exhibited higher levels of depressive and anxious symptoms during middle READ MORE
Texas School District Hit With Federal Gender Bias Lawsuit for Banning Long Hair Among Boys
By Kana Ruhalter, 10/21/21 “…A Texas school district has been hit with a federal lawsuit after allegedly suspending six boys and one nonbinary student for having long hair. The Magnolia Independent School District in Houston maintains a strict policy that not only calls for “clean, well-groomed” hair and a “natural hair color,” but also bans READ MORE