“…In no PISA-participating education system did boys report more intensive use of memorisation than girls when learning mathematics. …”

“…Across OECD countries, 5% of students expect to work as teachers: 3% of boys and 6% of girls. The academic profile of students who expect to work as teachers varies, but in many OECD countries,students who expect to work as teachers have poorer mathematics and reading skills than other ambitious students who expect to work as professionals but not as teachers. …”

“…Despite many years of equality of choice, boys and girls continue to differ in both the subjects they study at school and later in the careers they decide to pursue. …”

“…This volume presents 22 tales from the Trobriand Islands told by children (boys between the age of 5 and 9 years) and adults. …”

“…"This book challenges a contemporary postfeminist sensibility grounded not only in assumptions that gender and sexual equality has been achieved in many Western contexts, but that feminism has gone 'too far' with women and girls now overtaking men and boys - positioned as the new victims of gender transformations. …”
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“…One was a medical school for Javanese boys, and the other a school for midwives for Javanese girls, and the graduates were supposed to replace native healers, the dukun. …”

“…In 1870, at the start of the French Third Republic, the average working-class child entered the workforce after completing primary school, and sometimes before. Boys toiled in print shops and girls spent their days sewing. …”

“…She flirts with the interviewer and tells that boys call her a “slut” because she compliments and hugs them…”

“…She flirts with the interviewer and tells that boys call her a “slut” because she compliments and hugs them…”

“…Taylor questions the common assumption that playing computer games is an isolating and alienating activity indulged in by solitary teenage boys. Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), in which thousands of players participate in a virtual game world in real time, are in fact actively designed for sociability. …”

“…Meanwhile, boys outperformed girls on the PISA mathematics assessment in most countries. …”

“…More importantly, measures to reduce gender differences in achievement seem to focus primarily on the underachievement of boys. In this publication, historical aspects and current trends within 12 European countries, regarding gender equality in education are presented and compared. …”