Q&A With Author Kara Jesella, 'Five-Minute Time Out: The Boy Crisis'

Article here. Excerpt:

'I was very surprised by the people pushing back on the story, because I didn't come to the story as an advocate one way or the other, just as a reporter who started to look at national data at how broadly boys were not thriving across race and class lines. There are people who feel we shouldn't focus on boys, that it's somehow part of the feminist backlash. I don't agree with that. I try to lay out in the book why I think this is an important issue for all people, whatever their political orientation. I consider myself a strong feminist and I am the mother of sons. I don't feel that my looking at this is taking oxygen away from very serious issues that still need to be addressed, like gender equity in the workplace, that there are not enough women in Congress, equal pay for equal work. These are real issues, but we need to separate them from what is happening to schoolboys.'