A Review Study of the “Boy Crisis”

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211020.259How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Boy Crisis, Androgyny, Gender Gap, One-child Policy

Abstract

This article examines the ‘boy crisis’, which is now becoming a global phenomenon. Boy crisis focuses on boy’s underperformance and underachievement compared to girls. The review has analyzed the present studies from the behavior of the boy crisis, the gender gap in attendance, and the gender gap in achievement where aims to determine the cause of the boy crisis and treatments can be used for boy crisis. Moreover, this paper also pointed out the potential cause of the boy crisis: the one-child policy, teacher gender gap, social environment, and education for quality. Finally, the treatments, including androgyny and single-sex school, were also reviewed to analyze the methods of reducing the cause by boy crisis in the society. However, they may need further research to confirm.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yuqi Jing
AU  - Yonglong Lin
AU  - Leyang Yu
AU  - Zhanhao Zhang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/21
TI  - A Review Study of the “Boy Crisis”
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Relations and Social Sciences (ICPRSS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 797
EP  - 801
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211020.259
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211020.259
ID  - Jing2021
ER  -