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anon_6hv78pr714xta
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For your first two questions: yes and yes.Isn't that the mirror image of parents who see their boys misbehave and say, "boys will be boys"? I am curious, aren't parents who say that sort of thing also creating problems with low expectations?
Certainly far from the entire problem, but PART of the problem is that boys have better options. It is very hard for women to get accepted as truck drivers, plumbers, and construction? There seem to be a lot of anecdotal stories out there of women having to overcome prejudice in such areas. So women have to use college to get ahead more than men. Men have better alternatives.
Again, that isn't the entire issue by any means, but it is certainly part of it.
As to the point of career options in the future, that doesn't help explain test score disparities at young ages, which is where you have to catch this problem to do the most overall good (same for racial or socioeconomic disparities).