Why boys' literacy skills lag behind girls' and how to bridge the reading gap

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26. It's not JUST distraction it's content of material

if you look at young adult section of any book store, a great deal of it is marketed towards girls.
Remember when Harry potter came out?
Remember how EVERYONE , boys and girls couldn't stop reading it?
I do, it was during the boom. People gave a damn.
sadly a lot of what's out there is tripe.

it also doesn't help that reading is seen as "egg-head stuff" and with the amount of cyber bullying compounded with IRL bullying, it's really not a massive shock boys aren't reading much.

I also think it's an over compensation. since the 60's and especially since the 80's more and more emphasis has been on improving the lot of females (in itself a laudable goal, glad we're basically there as far as education) but it's been to the detriment if not abandonment of young men and boys.

FWIW I'm in favor of public boy-only and girls-only schools. it's been PROVEN that both genders excel when there isnt the distraction (or oppression) of the opposite sex.

but that may be a different topic