Analysis Of The War Against Boys By Christina Sommers

Education is the most powerful weapon that can be used to change the world. For many years women have been fighting for equal rights, today gender bias continues to create huge barriers. Over the years women have made tremendous gains, such as fighting for equal rights in the early 19th century, and have professions such as medicine and law where in the 19th century women couldn’t do. In “The War against Boys” by Christina Sommers, argues that in the United States girls are outperforming boys in school academics. Current research shows that Sommers is correct, girls tend to do better in school because parents and teachers have an effect on the educational gender gap. Daughters want to please their teachers by, making homework as neat as possible.

As the years have gone by it seems that the role model effects have indeed affected little girls, at a young age they are taught of all the accomplishments women have made since the 19th century and that encourages them to do better academic wise. Also, if a child knows that there parent has attended college and is successful in life it influences them to do good at a young age to get into a good college. According to Ryan Wells, “Parents’ educational attainment influences their children’s educational expectations in terms of providing financial resources and as a model of college-going behavior. Having attended college themselves, parents indirectly define the value of attending postsecondary institutions and attaining postsecondary education. However, the positive effect of parental educational attainment appears to have lessened in magnitude in recent cohorts of students. Much of the research that examines the effects of parental education on children’s expectations focuses on the gender-socialization perspective. This perspective asserts that women look to the example of their mothers and men to the example of their fathers in forming their educational expectations. The examination of same-sex, parent-child effects versus opposite-sex, parent-child effects has been largely inconclusive. Although some studies find the educational level of mothers to have a greater positive effect on the

According to Christina Hoff Sommers, the U.S. Department of Education and several recent university studies show that far from being shy and demoralized, today's girls outshine boys. They get better grades. They have higher educational aspirations. They follow more rigorous academic programs and participate in advanced-placement classes at higher rates (Sommers). In accordance with what Sommers say is the research of Kyong Hee Chee. Chee states that according to Kuh, Women are more likely to be labeled as a "grind" and as it was previously said, Grinds exhibit a high level of academic