It's Time for New Lessons in Masculinity - Yvonne Roberts - WISE 2013 Spotlight

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Channel: WISE Channel · 2014 · Education

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Yvonne Roberts, Chief Lead Writer at The Observer, in the United Kingdom, looks at how gender roles and stereotypes in British schools are preventing boys from pursuing higher education. Unless sexist constructions of masculinity are changed, she said, women would continue to outperform boys.


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