In 2011, an Indian census revealed something startling: Across the country, there were 7 million
more boys than girls under the age of six.
A recent census highlights a continuing gender disparity when it comes to school readiness,
with more boys than girls considered «developmentally vulnerable».
In the new study, the scientists expressed surprise that the early abnormal growth of brain cells they observed in the fish embryo specifically affected male hormones, potentially indicating
why more boys than girls are diagnosed with certain neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism.
Figures from the Joint Council for Qualifications reveal that over 20,000
more boys than girls took maths and physics at A-level in each subject this year.
Overall, concussions are most common in football and ice hockey, followed by soccer, wrestling and other sports, and
slightly more boys than girls suffer concussions.
The Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) highlights a continuing gender disparity when it comes to school readiness, with
more boys than girls considered «developmentally vulnerable».
She explained that there were many
more boys than girls at the Angel House, so being open to adopting a son would probably lead to a faster match.
Warren Sparrow identified the difficulties that many young boys have in education: «A strange phenomenon in South Africa is that there are
more boys than girls in primary school, but this gets reversed in high school and tertiary institutions.»
Also, it's probably more interesting to
more boys than girls.
I stare at so many things asking myself, «Is
that more boy than girl?
In most countries, for as long as records have been kept,
more boys than girls have been born.
It also sheds new light on the long observed but little understood «gender bias» of autism, an illness that typically manifests by age 3 and affects about four times
more boys than girls.
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More boys than girls are in special education classes.
More boys than girls are prescribed mood - managing drugs.
«A strange phenomenon in South Africa is that there are
more boys than girls in primary school, but this gets reversed in high school and tertiary institutions.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), defined by the American Academy of Pediatrics as a «condition of the brain that makes it difficult for children to control their behavior,» affects an estimated 4 to 12 percent of all school - age children — about three times
more boys than girls.
In contrast to this, Chen and Simons - Morton noted that among adolescents with high levels of depression,
more boys than girls were in the highest trajectory for conduct problems over a 3 - year period (from Grade 6 to Grade 9) in a community sample [22].
Similarly, an analysis of a clinical sample found no sex differences in therapist - reported physical aggression when considering the entire sample (11.4 % boys, 14.6 % girls, non-significant), but there were
more boys than girls in the group of physically aggressive youth (Nock and Kazdin 2002).
Also,
more boys than girls have ADHD (3:1 respectively [8]-RRB- and girls appear to have less severe inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity, but greater intellectual impairments than boys with ADHD [8].