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What are your beliefs regarding ability differences between malesand females in general and in education?

Males are physically stronger. Girls cannot compete directly with boys in

many kinds of physical or sporting competitions due to different bodymakeups. Girls have more aptitude for social interaction and communication,both due to nurture and possibly a biological predisposition for buildingrelationships. Similarly, boys may be more competitive and aggressive dueto higher testosterone levels.

As a group, girls and boys do not have different aptitude for math andscience for biological reasons.

There is some evidence that boys are better at spatial relationships thangirls.

Regardless of generalizations that can be made about typical boys andgirls in education, each child should have a chance to develop multipledifferent strengths. Starting from the assumption that each child has allcapabilities allows educators to help the child develop.Practically speaking, the skills that boys are assumed to be better at (math,science & business) are NOT equivalent to the skills that girls are assumed tobe better at (dance, writing, art). Because our society values and rewardstraditionally male skills more, it is more important to encourage girls inmath and science than to encourage boys in dance and art.

What evidence can you present to validate your viewpoint?

http://www.child-psych.org/2009/06/boys-girls-science-sex-intellectual-differences.htmlhttp://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2009/09/05/boys-and-girls-not-as-different-as-we-thought/http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/2008/07/28/study-shows-boys-and-girls-equal-in-math-ability.html

On spatial rotation (one gender difference thats been shown consistently):http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/38892/title/Baby_boys_may_sho

w_spatial_supremacy

Also consider the existing laws that are meant to guarantee equaltreatment in education for girls and boys.

http://www.child-psych.org/2009/06/boys-girls-science-sex-intellectual-differences.htmlhttp://www.child-psych.org/2009/06/boys-girls-science-sex-intellectual-differences.htmlhttp://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2009/09/05/boys-and-girls-not-as-different-as-we-thought/http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2009/09/05/boys-and-girls-not-as-different-as-we-thought/http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/2008/07/28/study-shows-boys-and-girls-equal-in-math-ability.htmlhttp://www.usnews.com/articles/science/2008/07/28/study-shows-boys-and-girls-equal-in-math-ability.htmlhttp://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/38892/title/Baby_boys_may_show_spatial_supremacyhttp://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/38892/title/Baby_boys_may_show_spatial_supremacyhttp://www.child-psych.org/2009/06/boys-girls-science-sex-intellectual-differences.htmlhttp://www.child-psych.org/2009/06/boys-girls-science-sex-intellectual-differences.htmlhttp://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2009/09/05/boys-and-girls-not-as-different-as-we-thought/http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2009/09/05/boys-and-girls-not-as-different-as-we-thought/http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/2008/07/28/study-shows-boys-and-girls-equal-in-math-ability.htmlhttp://www.usnews.com/articles/science/2008/07/28/study-shows-boys-and-girls-equal-in-math-ability.htmlhttp://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/38892/title/Baby_boys_may_show_spatial_supremacyhttp://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/38892/title/Baby_boys_may_show_spatial_supremacy

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Title IX is the main law that focuses on treatment of the genders ineducation. However, it mostly has been implemented in sports (giving equalamounts of funding to male and female sports). While this is important, theeducational component has been largely neglected. Lawmakers haveaddressed the question of ACCESS to equal opportunity, but they have not

addressed the more dangerous problems of long-term, subtle unequaltreatment that leads to girls not succeeding in math and science inparticular.