st explanation for this conflict of opinions. The Education Week article makes the claim that when looking at African-American students thegender gap actually favored the females as early as 1970. The women who said there schoolingwas unfairly tilted toward males was from the predominantly white Central Pennsylvania region,while the lady saying girls had the upper hand came from a school in Maryland which had an equalif not greater number of African-American students, a possible explanation for the differing viewsfrom the same time period.When looking at the results, we see that the hypothesis was overall correct. The trend hasbeen for the girls to be treated progressively better while the boys advantage has slipped away. However gender inequality does still exist in schools to differing degrees, even if the offendedparty has changed. Interestingly enough, against the hypothesis, the oldest group we looked atwere not concerned over gender inequalities, maybe this something we can learn from and focusour attention on some bigger issues. Also, Molly Weinburgh’s research found gender to be theleast predictive of a student’s scholastic success. On a final note, it is important to keep in mindthat this is the schools we have looked at, the glass ceiling of the work place still must beaddressed. ...
