Packaging Boyhood, tonight + a link about girls and math & a NYT story about girls and soccer

Just a reminder that Lyn Mikel Brown and Mark Tappan will be in Portland tonight to discuss the ways that marketers are trying to sell boys a very narrow and troubling version of masculinity.

Packaging Boyhood Thursday, November 12 7:00 - 9:00 pm Dana Center Auditorium at Maine Medical Center 22 Bramhall Street, Portland Lyn Mikel Brown, EdD, and Mark Tappan, EdD, Professors of Education at Colby College, will talk about their research and new book Packaging Boyhood. They will discuss the surprising ways media and marketers target boys and the impact of this targeting on how boys think, feel, and relate to one another and to girls. This presentation is a must for anyone interested in the healthy development of young boys. This event is being hosted by the MaineHealth Learning Resource Center.

Also, MIT has a new paper about the continuing gender gap in math achievement (scroll to first comment for the actual paper. )

And, even more provocative, this NYT article about Elizabeth Lambert explores the importance of violence in the culture of sports and how this causes trouble for women - those who engage in violence and who don't.