Summary Of Article 2 By Alia Wong

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In “Article #1” by Alia Wong, “Article #2” by Risa Gelles-Watnick and Andrew Perrin, and “Article #3” by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the primary claim is that women enjoy reading more than men and reading has been linked to education and career success. “Girls and young women—once subjected to discrimination in, and even exclusion from, schools and colleges—have conquered those very institutions,” explained Alia Wong based on information from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Reading for enjoyment is a common hobby for many people around the world, but evidence has shown that women commonly read more than men. Nowadays, women also make up a growing majority of college students. According to the OECD, the number of women in college is now up from around 40
Along with girls reading a higher volume of books, they also have been found to read more effectively than boys. Professor of educational and social research at the University of Dundee Keith Topping performed a study that showed boys spend less time processing words than girls. Because of this, Topping infers and explains that boys are more drawn to books below their own reading levels simply because they usually do not care as much about reading as girls do. Topping stated that, “Girls tend to do almost everything more thoroughly than boys,” and also writes to Wong, “[boys are] more careless about some, if not most, school subjects.” Along with Topping, “Article #2” mentions a Pew Research Center study that found that about 26 percent of U.S. adults have not read a book in the past year versus the 21 percent of women who have. All over the developed world, there has been a similar trend with more women reading than men. In 2009, a global study was conducted on the academic ability of 15-year-olds. This study revealed that just one in 65 developed countries had more boys state they