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Underachieving Boys......

Read an article on male underachievement, would share some excerpts from the journal.
… boys need far more discipline, structure and authority in their lives than do girls. … Boys must be actively constrained by a whole phalanx of adults who come into contact with them—parents, teachers, neighbours, policemen, passers-by in the streets—before they can be expected to control their asocial, egoistic impulses. (Quoted in Hoff Sommers, 2000, pp. 180–181)
Growing up it was conventional in my society that women(girls) are normally guarded by family, community and society at large.Maybe because they carry the "honor" of their family. While the male counterpart are given a lot more freedom to do virtually as he wills. Responsibility; a great personality molder, the girl child is able to focus more and harness the extra attention and supervision.Setting goals and building character, while the male folk is given minimal supervision and his excesses classified as "Boys will be boys". Unconsciously as a society we have been creating high achieving women and there is nothing wrong in that but we can do this without encouraging underachievement among the male folks.

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