please follow me on twitter @bonnieerbe. from women ceos to boys getting c's girls are surging ahead of boys in high school achievement according to the national bureau of economic research. three decades of data show high school girls are getting more a's and boys more c's. the most important reason for the growing gap is girls' higher career expectations. but other scholars have a different explanation. they believe boys are falling behind academically because school is a hostile environment they point to policies such as zero tolerance for violence that have led to children, mainly boys, suspended for pretending to use weapons. one example, a 7-year old boy who was suspended for nibbling the edges of his pop-tart into the shape of a gun. schools are also restricting games deemed violent or exclusionary, such as dodgeball, tag, and tug of war - which has been renamed "tug of peace." some concerned parents and educators fear this approach is backfiring and hurting boys. boys are nearly five times more likely to be expelled

@bonnieerbe. from women looking for jobs to women in obama's cabinet. is anyone surprised? a report out this week shows the obama white house has done a stunningly less impressive job of appointing women to cabinet-level posts than its most recent predecessor, the clinton administration. a "new york times" survey compared female cabinet-level appointments by the last three administrations. it found, that women currently hold about 35% of cabinet-level posts, compared with 41% during the clinton administrations and 24% during the george w. bush years. do women have a right to expect more, even much more, from president obama? without their support, he would not have been elected in the first place nor re-elected in the second. your turn. >> women have right to expect more. they did expect more seeing second term with the boys club reasserting itself is really discouraging and no where more discouraging than in larry summers' perspective leadership at the fed. larry, girls want do math summers, really? the economic crisis in this country, not to mention has complete contempt