Summary Of Nacademic Selves

¨Academic Selves” is an essay about gender inequality in schools and how aware we are of it. It tells how different girls and boys are treated since they are infants. Boys are most likely to be seen as role models, to receive teachers’ attention, and to speak up in class. Girls are exposed to more boy-centered stories than girl-centered stories. Boys are often portrayed as clever, brave, creative, and resourceful, while girls are seen as kind, dependent, and docile. The essay mentions how society also affects a girls self-esteem by mentioning how a seventh-grader that was failing all her classes declared that she and her friends had decided that making good grades was not cool. The author tells a personal experience, she tells how she lied