The society defines specific roles for boys and girls. This means that boys are required to a perform to a particular degree as well as girls. The notion that boys are stronger and more aggressive than girls ahs made them face many challenges. Whenever the society looks at people to empower, it is the girls that are looked considered (Langan, 2011). The boys are expected to naturally posses and display certain qualities a failure of which they will be considered abnormal. With the current education system where boys and girls compete for top positions, it is expected that boys perform better. This has made most of them who have learning disabilities to be despised by their teachers and fellow students. In fact, there are schools where boys are punished or ridiculed for being defeated by girls. No matter the circumstances and situations they face, they are required to show exemplary performance (Sommers, 2000). The pressure they receive both from home and school psychologically affects them by making them more anxious than hardworking.
The society has the responsibility of ensuring that both boys and girls have access to equal education opportunities and facilities. The individual students on the other hand need to have the will power of knowing that they can perform better despite the pressure. At times, it is good to ignore the pressure around and simply work as hard as they can. No matter what they obtain in the end, there should be that confident within them that they worked as hard as they could. This will minimize on the possibilities of losing their morale simply because nobody seems to appreciate their work (Kimmel & Aronson, 2003). The society also needs to check on the amount of pressure they impose on their children and more so the boys. They should understand that there could be more factors that affect a boys performance that need to be checked.
Reference
Kimmel, M. & Aronson, A. (2003). Men & Masculinities: A Social, Cultural, and Historical
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Langan, J. (2011). The Longman Reader. London: Pearson Education Canada.
Sommers, C. (2000). The war against boys: how misguided feminism is harming our young men.
Virginia: Simon & Schuster.
