They’ve absorbed the message: They’re outperforming boys in school at every level. Girls today are told that they can do anything, be anyone.
The past 50 years have redefined what it means to be female in America. In a 2018 Times opinion essay “ The Boys Are Not All Right,” the comedian and author Michael Ian Black writes: What do they imagine is expected of them? Whom do they look up to, and how are they navigating the transition from being boys to becoming men? What do boys in America think about being boys today?
