PSYCHOLOGY TODAY: It’s Time For Feminism To Address The Needs Of Boys.

Again, think of how often you hear or see something in the news about how women are being treated badly. (And much of this may be true.) But how about the fact that boys are not doing so well. How often do you hear about that?

I’m not the only one who has noticed this. Google “boys outdo girls” and you get 556 results; do it for “girls outdo boys” and you get 75,700. And yet, honestly, how often have you heard about this gender gap? The Minds of Boys: Saving Our Sons From Falling Behind in School and Life, a wonderful book by Michael Gurian and the late Kathy Stevens, was published in 2007, and has an Amazon sales rank of 115,100, while Mary Pipher’s Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, published two years earlier, ranks at 8,652.

Well, there’s a war on boys. And there’s a House Men For Women Caucus in Congress. There’s no caucus for women who want to help boys.