Well, after colleague Julie Coates told me about the growing anti-feminism among younger women, I asked New York Times Education Editor Allison Mitchell about that.
Mitchell was taking emails from readers all week. John T. Dexter of Tarrytown, New York, wrote to ask whether the New York Times was embarrassed by its claims that girls were underserved by schools. "Now the real numbers appear, showing that the opposite is true. Boys are underserved by schools."
Mitchell replied to Dexter, ending, "When I was in college (I'm dating myself) girls
were far from a majority in college, and there were not many women in the
nation's newsrooms either." Mitchell is obviously a Boomer. So I looked up the age of Mary Beth Marklein, the USA Today reporter who interviewed us and then abruptly decided not the cover the story. She's a Boomer too.
A Boomer female reporter from another newspaper was so sceptical/subjective she even pointed out in print Julie and I were married, as if the relationship somehow reduced the validity of our research.
On the other hand, I've been interviewed by several college women writing for their university newspapers. They show no bias, and are quite open to reporting on all our data. I have long thought feminist teachers were not the problem, even when education professors have told me that is the problem. Now I'm not so sure. What do you think?
What do I think? I think that Dexter the former Trevor Day School headmaster arrested for having kiddie porn.
Posted by: Dave | July 06, 2011 at 02:26 PM