Replication crisis details ad nauseam how social psychology studies are only reproducible in 26-30% of cases. Almost all social sciences are worse than a coin toss. Including education.
What that says to me is social tropes as a basis for how we raise kids are massively out of alignment with how human biology relates to reality.
Women like Steinem argued against women being treated like concepts and objects by men (which I agree with).
But there is an irony in women using their biology's unique (relative to a mans) emotional and logical faculties to suggest they know best how men should behave.
If her actual point was we need to find the best means to support boys as we have with girls, sure. But "raise them like" does not readily communicate that nuance.
The series I cited argues for this, not against it. I think her point was probably actually grounded in a reality of male behavior that was specific for her time. So I read it more as a "they need to have empathy by growing up how I grew up". She was also not a biologist or a researcher in education, although many may have taken what she said as gospel. But that's celebrity. I'm more curious about her ties to the CIA...
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025/04/07/falling-behind-mised...