Protect Girls, but dont forget about boys

There is a definite discrepancy and unfairness in the way that men and woman are valued in the work place, in socially groups, and at home. In the work place women are given less promotions, in groups people listen to men more than women and at home women still do most of the house work. The view that women are at a disadvantage because of a system that needs to be changed is also present in school. People complain that girls in school are valued less than boys. In the article called "What About Boys?" by Michelle Kimmel he talks about how the protection of girls from bias towards boys is not helpful in schools because girls are actually excelling compared to boys.  This is true and I can relate it to what happened in my high school where the girls were doing much better than the boys at studies. It wasnt just one or two of the girls who were doing better, it was a real trend.  I wasn't surprised when I found this out about my twelfth grade male comrades. They hardly worked, they hung out after school while us girls would be in the library doing work. I attributed them doing worse than us to them being lazy but Kimmel brings up points that I didn't think about. Boys do not do as well in school as girl because they are faced with much more violence. Boys are three times as likely as boys to be victims of violence.  Homophobia is also another thing that Kimmel states suppresses boys in school. Women have less of a problem fitting into the box in school than guys do. The article basically says that we shouldn't forget that guys as well as girls do not have it easy in school for different reasons