Fear boys falling behind nothing new

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'Growing gender enrolment [sic] gaps at universities and poor male test scores in reading and writing have a lot of commentators saying boys are being left behind in schools and workplaces increasingly shaped for women to succeed.

These concerns are nothing new according to University of Windsor education professor Christopher Greig. His recently published book, Ontario Boys: Masculinity and the Idea of Boyhood in Postwar Ontario, 1945—1960, argues that concerns about boyhood identity have been big issues in the past.
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“Any time you have significant economic and societal changes you see gender roles can become threatened and you see that now also,” Greig said. “Today men continue to see women take on roles (men) used to dominate and succeed in fields they were not around in before, especially at universities.”
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Greig says he hopes his book will help readers look at the bigger picture of how gender roles play a role in performance by boys at school and elsewhere.

“I hope readers will learn that the concerns we have for boys today are not new,” he said. “Rather than blame schools or parents, we should have a deeper conversation about gender roles and how they influence how boys are raised.”'