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Boys or girls - who are better readers

Michael Rutter, MD of King's College London, and colleagues reviewed four major studies on the reading skills of children (Denoon, 2004). Their findings concluded that reading difficulties are much more common in boys than in girls. "It seems that everyone Anglo - Saxon ... boys are more likely than girls to have a reading disability, "and Rutter colleagues write. They encourage further study on this subject, leaving his unknown reason (ibid.).

In Pakistan, the social status of a small girl and a boy is clearly distinct, which unfortunately is also reflected in their choice of studies especially in the middle and lower class families. In the words of Victor (2006), female students' work by themselves, without any extra help, guidance or supervision "and that they really have a heart for education, but Due to adverse circumstances can not do. "She blames the attitude of parents towards their studies, chores that girls do too exhausted by the end of the day to study, and lack of motivation of their except that their first object based on their parents to be an expert in cooking, cleaning, washing, cleaning therefore be housewives after marriage success (ibid.). But what is clear that girls achieve better position in the matriculation exams than boys. In the year 2008 is the result of registration in the arts group ("Jang", July 15, 2008, p. 13), it is interesting to note that no school Sindh provincial department of education could get a job, the top three positions were secured by the girls. quava Hira Khan, who won the first position, in an interview said that, outside their school hours, she had the habit of studying for nearly nine hours per day (Jang, July 15, 2008 pp. 20). In the science group, similarly, all three positions were secured by girls from different private schools. It ironically has been for the past 15 years, no school of the Government of Sindh has been able to get a position in this regard ("Jang", July 31, 2008, pp. 13).

1. Parents often complain that boys spend so much time on games. "Even when they read, their tastes are different, the reading of girls is often considered more appropriate because it meets the requirements of the English curriculum more closely so that access to games is generally prohibited in classrooms" ( Senior, 2007, p. 99). "... Many boys who are not science - fiction and fantasy readers, go directly to adult thrillers or detective novels with violent representations of women as victims "(Senior, 2007, p. 163).

Whitehead (2007) in response to the study of Rosen Monica gender gap in reading performance, in which Rosen hypothesis girls were lower, says that Rosen found that in some countries, especially Finland, Sweden and Hungary no significant difference between boys and girls' test results for the reading of both documents and narratives. In other countries, including Denmark, girls outperformed boys in most levels in the two types of reading. Girls are in fact generally a bit more mature than the boys when they enter school and often soar ahead in reading at first, but it's not true everywhere. In other countries such as USA, Hong Kong, and Turkey, and also on the whole, boys do better in some reading tasks in certain grades and girls did better in others.

Rosen hypothesis - that boys do better at reading maps, and interpreting data in a table was mostly right, girls in general - except in Finland, Sweden and Hungary, where there was no significant difference between the sexes on these tasks, and some other countries like Denmark where girls of all ages tend to outperform boys in all kinds of reading tasks - has been significantly [here means statistically significantly significant.