Introduction

Scott Utterback/The Courier-Journal, via Associated Press

Jane McManus, a sportswriter, recently wrote about her frustration at hearing that a boy mocked her daughter in school for wanting to learn how to play football. We’ve come so far — thanks in part to Title IX — in redefining gender roles and raising our daughters’ expectations, McManus lamented, and yet we have failed to teach inclusion to our sons.

Do we need to do more to change the way we raise boys?