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AAUW Official Looks At Her Own Family

By Richard Whitmire — March 22, 2010 1 min read
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...and discovers what a lot of families already know too well -- the girls are succeeding in school, the boys ... not so much.

Imagine the day when thousands of AAUW moms, many of them mothers of sons struggling in schools or mothers of daughters who can’t find a similarly educated mate to marry, discover that the AAUW has spent years fighting the reality that gender gaps are a separate phenomenon from race gaps.

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