Boys Stop Reading, Girls Persist Amid School Closures

University of Copenhagen

The gap between boys' and girls' reading grows when schools are closed. This is shown in a new study published in the scientific journal PNAS, where researchers followed the reading habits of more than 200,000 Danish schoolchildren during holidays and COVID‑19 lockdowns.

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