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And what's even more disturbing is what's happening with younger boys.
更加令人不安的是發生在年輕的男孩子身上的事情。
There's been about a decade of research about what people are calling the "boy crisis."
這有一個進行了大約十年的調查，關于人們所謂的男生危機是什么。
Now the boy crisis is this idea that very young boys, for whatever reason,
現在的男生危機是年幼的男生，不知道為什么，
are doing worse in school than very young girls, and people have theories about that.
在學校里表現得比年幼的女生差。人們有關于這件事情的理論。
Is it because we have an excessively verbal curriculum,
是因為我們有過多的語言課程,
and little girls are better at that than little boys?
小女孩在這個方面比男孩做得更好嗎?
Or that we require kids to sit still too much, and so boys initially feel like failures?
又或者是我們過多地要求孩子們坐著不動，所以男孩子們覺得很失敗？
And some people say it's because, in 9th grade, boys start dropping out of school.
有一些人說因為在九年級的時候，男孩子開始退學。
Because I'm writing a book about all this, I'm still looking into it, so I don't have the answer.
因為我在寫一本關于這個的書，我仍然在做調查，所以我還沒有結果。
But in the mean time, I'm going to call on the worldwide education expert,
但同時，我將呼吁世界級教育專家，
who's my 10-year-old daughter, Noa, to talk to you about why the boys in her class do worse.
也就是我十歲的女兒，諾亞，和你們談談為什么男孩子在他們班表現比較差。
The girls are obviously smarter. I mean they have much larger vocabulary.
女生的確更聰明。我是說她們有更多的詞匯量。
They learn much faster. They are more controlled.
她們學得更快。她們更遵守紀律。
On the board today for losing recess tomorrow, only boys.
在今天的黑板上只有男生被罰失去明天的休息時間。
And why is that?
為什么呢？
Why? They were just not listening to the class while the girls sat there very nicely.
為什么？他們不聽講，而女生坐得很端正。
So there you go.
所以你現在知道了。
This whole thesis really came home to me
這個論文
when I went to visit a college in Kansas City -- working-class college.
是當我在訪問堪薩斯市的一所大學時決定的--一所工薪階層的大學。
Certainly, when I was in college, I had certain expectations about my life --
當然當我在大學的時候，我對我的人生有非常明確的期望--
that my husband and I would both work, and that we would equally raise the children.
我的丈夫和我都工作，我們平等地共同撫養孩子。
But these college girls had a completely different view of their future.
但是這些大學女孩兒們對她們的未來有著完全不同的看法。
Basically, the way they said it to me is that they would be working 18 hours a day,
基本上，他們對我說的是，他們將一天工作十八個小時，
that their husband would maybe have a job,
他們的丈夫有可能有工作，
but that mostly he would be at home taking care of the kiddies.
但是大部分他們將在家里照看孩子。
And this was kind of a shocker to me.
這對我來說是一個震驚。
And then here's my favorite quote from one of the girls: "Men are the new ball and chain."
這個是我最喜歡的一個女孩的話：“男人是新的累贅”
