Goal! Food. Fitness. Fandom.
December 2013 - Read about technology leading Americans to healthy lifestyles, activists introducing city dwellers to the great outdoors and teenagers exposing the fashion industry’s unrealistic standards. Judge for yourself: Can USA become a soccer nation? Learn how space awakens a desire to send a craft to the moon, and take a tour of Mars with a sci-fi writer.
Read more: http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/ejusa.html#ixzz2iJgvkIVF
Masculinity was more clearly defined when “men were men,” as the phrase goes. Today, as gender conventions blur, men are formulating more nuanced ideas of what it means to be a man. The household in particular is becoming more gender-neutral as men both embrace a more active role and get pushed into it out of necessity.
“The State of Men” examines shifts in male roles, behavior, attitudes and mindsets, focusing on how masculinity is being redefined circa 2013, how men’s role in the home is changing and how men are navigating the new gender order.
The report is the result of quantitative, qualitative and desk research conducted by JWTIntelligence throughout the year. For this report, we surveyed 1,000 adults aged 18-plus in the U.S. and the U.K. from April 29-May 2, 2013 using SONAR™, JWT’s proprietary online panel. The report also includes input from experts and influencers in male trends and JWT’s Planning Foresight group in London, as well as JWT planners around the globe, including Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, Australia, Spain, Poland, Japan and Thailand.
Go to JWTIntelligence.com/trendletters to see the full report, with recommendations for brands and additional data.
Goal! Food. Fitness. Fandom.
December 2013 - Read about technology leading Americans to healthy lifestyles, activists introducing city dwellers to the great outdoors and teenagers exposing the fashion industry’s unrealistic standards. Judge for yourself: Can USA become a soccer nation? Learn how space awakens a desire to send a craft to the moon, and take a tour of Mars with a sci-fi writer.
Read more: http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/ejusa.html#ixzz2iJgvkIVF
Masculinity was more clearly defined when “men were men,” as the phrase goes. Today, as gender conventions blur, men are formulating more nuanced ideas of what it means to be a man. The household in particular is becoming more gender-neutral as men both embrace a more active role and get pushed into it out of necessity.
“The State of Men” examines shifts in male roles, behavior, attitudes and mindsets, focusing on how masculinity is being redefined circa 2013, how men’s role in the home is changing and how men are navigating the new gender order.
The report is the result of quantitative, qualitative and desk research conducted by JWTIntelligence throughout the year. For this report, we surveyed 1,000 adults aged 18-plus in the U.S. and the U.K. from April 29-May 2, 2013 using SONAR™, JWT’s proprietary online panel. The report also includes input from experts and influencers in male trends and JWT’s Planning Foresight group in London, as well as JWT planners around the globe, including Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, Australia, Spain, Poland, Japan and Thailand.
Go to JWTIntelligence.com/trendletters to see the full report, with recommendations for brands and additional data.
Welcome back to The Generation Edge series, our monthly magazine exploring the identity, values, and lifestyle of the post millennial generation. People born after about 1995, the eldest of which are about 19 now.
In this edition we explore Gen Edge's critical point of view on education and its impact on their future and the future of the world.
Because these days reading, writing and arithmetic don't add up to anything...
This presentation was delivered by Dr. Michael Bridges on April 20, 2009 for the Pittsburgh Emerging Arts Leaders Network. It covers differences between Boomers, Xers and Millenials in the Arts Management workplace.
The notion of family is rapidly evolving, but many brands aren’t yet portraying the new reality of today’s families or fully speaking to their needs. Marriage is no longer a given in many parts of the world, nor are children; at the same time, gay couples are embracing these milestones as attitudes and laws change. Meanwhile, as people live longer, more are forming new families in later decades, and households are expanding to include multiple generations. On the other end of the spectrum, more people are living in households of one, forming families out of friends or even treating pets as family. This report spotlights what’s driving these trends, supporting data and examples of how marketers are responding.
As part of our monthly presentation on the post-Millennials, we're exploring Gen Edge's philanthropic spirit, social consciousness, and entrepreneurial attitude towards making the world a better place.
Moving the Needle on Gender Diversity in Tech. Sasha Robinson
Diverse workplaces generate creative friction to deliver exemplary products, foster an environment of inclusivity, and principally, prevent the workplace from remaining a boys club that acts to silence the voices of “out groups” through unconscious bias, stereotype threat, gendered and racialized discrimination, and general isolation via the myth of “culture fit.”
Boys Underachievement: Contextualising ‘Gaps In Educational AttainmentMike Blamires
Dr Steve Strand presented some of his findings from the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (2007) in order to explore Boys' underachievement: Contextualising ‘gaps' in educational attainment. His research has shown the attainment gap at age 16, in terms of gender, ethnic group and socio-economic class, to be in inverse rank to the extent of press and media attention (total points score 0.22, 0.61 and 1.29 respectively). However, the interaction effects of these variables are significant (e.g. the gender gap is much larger for Black Caribbean and Bangladeshi pupils than for White British pupils), and call for more "nuanced interpretations"; care also needs to be taken not to over-generalise to the individual. http://www.ttrb.ac.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?ContentId=15098
Welcome back to The Generation Edge series, our monthly magazine exploring the identity, values, and lifestyle of the post millennial generation. People born after about 1995, the eldest of which are about 19 now.
In this edition we explore Gen Edge's critical point of view on education and its impact on their future and the future of the world.
Because these days reading, writing and arithmetic don't add up to anything...
This presentation was delivered by Dr. Michael Bridges on April 20, 2009 for the Pittsburgh Emerging Arts Leaders Network. It covers differences between Boomers, Xers and Millenials in the Arts Management workplace.
The notion of family is rapidly evolving, but many brands aren’t yet portraying the new reality of today’s families or fully speaking to their needs. Marriage is no longer a given in many parts of the world, nor are children; at the same time, gay couples are embracing these milestones as attitudes and laws change. Meanwhile, as people live longer, more are forming new families in later decades, and households are expanding to include multiple generations. On the other end of the spectrum, more people are living in households of one, forming families out of friends or even treating pets as family. This report spotlights what’s driving these trends, supporting data and examples of how marketers are responding.
As part of our monthly presentation on the post-Millennials, we're exploring Gen Edge's philanthropic spirit, social consciousness, and entrepreneurial attitude towards making the world a better place.
Moving the Needle on Gender Diversity in Tech. Sasha Robinson
Diverse workplaces generate creative friction to deliver exemplary products, foster an environment of inclusivity, and principally, prevent the workplace from remaining a boys club that acts to silence the voices of “out groups” through unconscious bias, stereotype threat, gendered and racialized discrimination, and general isolation via the myth of “culture fit.”
Boys Underachievement: Contextualising ‘Gaps In Educational AttainmentMike Blamires
Dr Steve Strand presented some of his findings from the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (2007) in order to explore Boys' underachievement: Contextualising ‘gaps' in educational attainment. His research has shown the attainment gap at age 16, in terms of gender, ethnic group and socio-economic class, to be in inverse rank to the extent of press and media attention (total points score 0.22, 0.61 and 1.29 respectively). However, the interaction effects of these variables are significant (e.g. the gender gap is much larger for Black Caribbean and Bangladeshi pupils than for White British pupils), and call for more "nuanced interpretations"; care also needs to be taken not to over-generalise to the individual. http://www.ttrb.ac.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?ContentId=15098
Creating a safe environment for your students, one that’s inclusive of all sexual orientations and gender affiliations, is vital for the success of your school. Educational consultant Jennifer Bryan offers valuable recommendations in this Net Assets article (published March/April 2012) for fostering a school atmosphere open to LGBTQI students, including an inclusivity checklist that will help you assess how your school stacks up.
GCE Sociology Revision (AQA)- Unit 2 Education- Gender differences and educat...Haleema Begum
For AQA GCE Sociology Unit 2: Education, Revision. Print out as a handout, it is a good way to revise. Application, Interpretation and Analysis tips are also included. All derived from the AS Sociology Revision Guide. Good luck!!!
ReadySetPresent (Gender Differences PowerPoint Presentation Content): 100+ PowerPoint presentation content slides. Misinterpreting gender differences can be potentially disastrous. However, understanding them, can lead to a harmonious environment both at work and at home. Gender Differences PowerPoint Presentation Content slides include topics such as: highlighting Gender and Communication Differences, how to avoid pitfalls, 6 common areas of miscommunication between genders, 6 slides on negotiation and gender, 10 slides on biological brain and health differences, 25+ slides on strengths of genders with facts and trivia, 15+ slides on managing and accommodating different genders and moving past stereotypes, 4 slides on the Parson’s model, 9 slides on women working with men, 8 slides on men working with women, and 6 slides on females in business, 10 slides on common misunderstandings and communication between spouses, interesting gender statistics and more!
In 2015, PISA asked students about the occupation they expect to be working in when they are 30 years old. Students’ responses were later grouped into science-related and non-science-related careers – with the former including science and engineering professionals; health professionals; science technicians and associate professionals; and information and communication technology (ICT) professionals. Girls and boys are almost equally likely to expect to work in a science-related career.
On average across OECD countries, almost one in four students (24%) reported that they expect to work in an occupation that requires further science training beyond compulsory education. Specifically, 8.6% of students expect to work as professionals who use science and engineering training (e.g. engineer, architect, physicist or astronomer), 11.4% as health professionals (e.g. medical doctor, nurse, veterinarian, physiotherapist), 2.6% as ICT professionals (e.g. software developer, applications programmer), and 1.4% as science-related technicians and associate professionals (e.g. electrical or telecommunications engineering technician).
1. Is There a Crisis in Boy’s
Education?
Laurel Durham
EDUC 2110
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Some analysts are claiming that boys are falling behind
girls in school.1
Consequently, those boys grow to be men who fall even
further behind women in higher education.
Why?
With a lot of effort going into pushing for girl’s enriched
education, those same analysts feel that boys are being left
behind. There is not as much of a focus on boy’s education
as there is for girls.2
In essence, a case of unintended reverse discrimination.
3. Girls are also being pushed into male-dominated
fields of study (math, science) while boys are not
being given the same encouragement to femaledominated areas (the arts and social sciences).3
A win for feminism. But is this win harming boys?
Richard Whitmore writes in his study that girls have
exceeded boys in learning, graduating, and getting
into higher levels of learning. Apparently, boys’
motivations have also been affected by the ‘boys
crisis.”4
The evidence of the discrimination, Whitmore argues,
is in the grade and enrollment demographics, which
drastically favor women over men.5
4. Others argue that there is no such crisis.
An article by Judith Warner reports that these discrepancies “isn’t new.”6 A
Washington Post article states that the claims of a ‘boy crisis’ is merely a myth.7
Educationsector.org believes that while girls do have higher graduation rates
and grades, it is only because they improve faster than boys.8
If anything, the differences in grades and graduation rates can be
attributed to ideologies and gender expectations. It is not necessarily a
fault of teachers or the education system.
5. A look at the census data does show that women attend school, graduate, and
go onto college at a higher percentage than men. However, the data shows
only minute differences.
Male
Female
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0253.pdf
Is the data enough to claim a ‘boy crisis’?
6. Evidence also suggests that it is not a gender problem - but a race and class issue.
In the Washington Post article, Rivers wrote that white boys in the upper and upper-middle classes
scored evenly with their girl counterparts.9 The only drastic differences they saw was in lower-income
areas where boys are more likely to drop out.
In lower income schools, African American girls were far more likely to graduate than African
American boys.10
So, instead of championing for separate gendered classrooms to appeal to the boys’ interests, the
focus should be instead on helping poor African American boys and families bridge the gendered gap.
So is it an issue of income rather than gender?
Or is it income and gender?
7. Staunch believers in the ‘Boy Crisis’ blame the statistics on:
teacher discrimination
“feminization of the classroom”
lack of male role models
lack of diversity in female-male teachers ratio
natural learning differences between girls and boys
schools’ lack of appealing to said differences
11
However, the report by the Education Sector states that boys are keeping up
with their girl classmates. Boys may be behind in some areas, but it is not to the
extent that those who believe in the “Boy Crisis” will lead people to believe.12
The boys who skew the percentages attend poor school districts, are
economically disadvantage, and are typically not white.13
8. Historically, masculine and feminine ideas change together. The idea of
femininity in the education field has changed, now the masculine idea needs to
change as well.
The ‘Boy Crisis’ looks to be another masculinity crisis.
There is the legitimate problem of masculine-feminine education roles. Just as
girls are being encouraged to study maths and sciences, boys should also be
encouraged to study the social sciences and the humanities.
Social stigmas should be removed (a long, very slow process that can begin in
the classroom). But with those standards in practice there is a limited focus of
seeing if the minute gaps can be equaled out.
9. In the educationsector.org debate, the main cause for concern
was with men’s education was their future job perpectives.
However, they also noted that traditionally, boys are geared to
take blue-collar jobs - a job market that is disappearing in today’s
economy.
If boys - men - are to be successful in the workforce overall, there
needs to be an awareness of the job market change.
10. Strong Pre-K programs, mentoring, and bases for support for both boys and
girls could help bridge the gap.
Exploring other learning routes could work for students as well.
Apprenticeships, career academies, and other alternative schools. If a boy or
girl is not adapting well to the traditional school setting, then they need to find
which learning style suits them best.
Encouraging more males to become educators would also provide positive
male role models in boy’s lives just as female teachers often do for girls.
11. Footnotes
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1. Lois Collins. “The war on boys.” last modified January 10, 2014. <http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765552031/The-war-onboys-young-men-are-facing-a-new-crisis.html?pg=all> accessed March 9, 2014.
2. Collins. “The war on boys.”
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3. Michael Kimmel. “Solving the ‘Boys Crisis’ in Schools.” last modified April 30, 2013. <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michaelkimmel/solving-the-boy-crisis-in_b_3126379.html> accessed March 9, 2014
4. Richard Whitmore. “Why Boys Fail (excerpt)” last modified January 15, 2010. <http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Books/excerptboys-fail-richard-whitmire/story?id=9561763&page=2> accessed March 9, 2014.
5. Whitmore. “Why Boys Fail (excerpt.)”
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6. Judith Warner. “Is There Really a Boy Crisis?” last modified March 21, 2013. <http://ideas.time.com/2013/03/21/the-boy-crisisis-it-fictional/> accessed March 9, 2014.
7. Carl Rivers. “The Myth of the ‘Boy Crisis’. last modified April 9, 2006. <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2006/04/07/AR2006040702025.html> accessed March 9, 2014.
8. Education Sector. “Are Boys Really in Crisis?” last modified September 12, 2006. <http://www.educationsector.org/events/areboys-really-crisis> accessed March 9, 2014.
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12. Slide 6
9. Rivers. “The Myth of ‘The Boy Crisis.’
10. Rivers. “The Myth of ‘The Boy Crisis.’
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11. Collins. “The war on boys.” ; Whitmore. “Why Boys Fail.” ; Kimmel. “Solving the ‘Boys Crisis’ in Schools.”
12. Educationsector.org. “Are Boys Really in Crisis?”
13. Judith Warner. “What Boy Crisis?” last modified July 3, 2006. <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/03/opinion/03warner.html?
_r=0> accessed March 9, 2014.
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