> A big issue is that boys read less than girls overall. Disagree. If you love to read fictions, doesn't help you at all to read tech books unless you're in it

> A big issue is that boys read less than girls overall. Disagree. If you love to read fictions, doesn't help you at all to read tech books unless you're in it. My hunch is, it is related with puberty. Biologically boys hit puberty late while that time girls are already on the way being matured. So it could be more about distractions during puberty. (But I am not expert in this field, need proper data to validate), May be it will be good to increasge age criteria for boys to attend school like marriage. Another related point is, incentives in puberty. Simple thing like being good in sports make you popular in crowd. So it is more important to have proper incentives for boys for studies. > Boys read for pleasure much less and apparently don't read as well as girls when they do: they use less challenging books and skip/skim more Disagree. Many boys are in comics, manga, sci-fi reading than classic and fictions. In my experience, where academic curriculum is more focused on memorization boys trail behind. But they do good in competative exams where analytical questions play big role. > Young adult books for example are targeted almost entirely towards teen girls now, and even manga or comic books seem focused on the female market in increasing amounts This is somewhat true, specifically in states. One of the reason behind it is, marketing agencies started to target teen-age girl group heavily for whatever reasons recently.