Article about boys and girls

This week, I found a article titled “Boys do better than girls when taught under traditional reading methods” written on March 21^st, 2007. This is the link: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23389856-boys-do-better-than-girls-when-taught-under-traditional-reading-methods.do

As the title tells all, this article basically says that boys perform better than girls when they are taught under traditional reading methods. The ‘traditional reading methods’ was basically reading in class. Hence, the article says that the results of an experiment demonstrated that boys were likely to have a better understanding of the readings than the girls.

I found this article a little bit ridiculous because now the male and female genders are being divided critically. It seems like the media/studies are trying to form a game of ‘boys against girls’. I don’t get why people have to do these studies that show which gender is better than the other. Especially when it comes to studying. I thought that this experiment was very off and inaccurate because I personally believe that the reading skills may vary by individuals and not gender. The reading skills may highly vary on the individual’s background, ability to focus, etc, and I don’t think it’s fair to have a limited amount of boys and girls take that test. The experiment therefore, to me, does not seem very trustworthy. As I mentioned before in my other blog post, I think that these sorts of articles make the distinction between male and female. Therefore, as these distinctions grow in our society, gender stereotypes become more powerful and dominant. Hence, it would be encouraging to society when experiments that differentiate male and female be less supported.