Materials; *Social Discrimination; Student Behavior

Sex roles in two disparate areas, reading and literature, are treated separately in this paper. Sex-related factors listed vhich nay attribute to the high incidence of boys experiencing reading difficulty were: (1) predominance of female teachers in the primary gradese (2) boys, lack of interest in basal readers, (3) adults considering reading a female activity, p4 effect of different socialization processes of fewales and males upon school success, (5) teacher attitude toward males during reading instruction. Sex discrimination does appear to predominate in English and American literature and literary criticism. College text in English literature are male oriented and few women writers exist in English literature before the nineteenth century. Thus, it appears that materials prepared for the instructien of children are heavily slanted in favor of males and male pursuits and that ',literature is traditionally an3 obviously male centered. On the basis of current information it appears that no single factor, including sex discrimination, is responsible fcr boys ' reading difficulties. 041