Boys Are Slighted When It Comes To 'Teaching Time'

Article here. Excerpt:

'If there are fewer than 50% females in physics, that is a call to action, argues virtually ... everyone in academia. We need greater outreach for girls, we need to change classes to appeal to them, we need to fund campaigns to convince women who are inclined to be doctors and help people to instead work in a lab, we are told.
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Lost in the culture war are young boys. Young boys in school have no policy makers fighting over them. Christina Hoff Sommers wrote a book on the topic, "The War On Boys", which made the case that we spend so much time and money trying to help females that we are neglecting young men. The implicit belief is they will somehow make it anyway.
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That culture war on males has been successful - now it has even invaded the home environment. Shankar Vedantam, writing at NPR, discusses the paper Boy-Girl Differences in Parental Time Investments: Evidence from Three Countries by Michael Baker and Kevin Milligan. They say that, as children age, parents are now spending more 'teaching time' with girls than boys - and boys are suffering due to that gender bias against them. It's vaguely sexist to insist girls need something super-special to succeed in math - Larry Summers got fired from Harvard for saying that girls might need more help in math. Yet it is evidence of the old truism that stereotypes and favoritism are okay as long as it's positive.'