This chapter examines the broader implications of Title IX beyond women's sports, particularly focusing on the educational disparities between boys and girls. It explores cognitive differences, challenges faced by boys in a female-centric education system, and critiques the trend of medicalizing typical male behavior. The conversation proposes strategies to better support boys in academic environments, such as delaying school entry and increasing the number of male teachers.
Many boys and men in America are doing worse than girls and women in education while struggling with a culture that struggles to define what masculinity is in the 21st century. Is this a problem? Richard Reeves thinks so which is why he started the American Institute for Boys and Men. Listen as Reeves discusses the state of boys and men and what might be done about it with EconTalk's Russ Roberts.