[close] Leonard Sax is an American psychologist and family physician. He is the author of Why Gender Matters (Doubleday, 2005) and of Boys Adrift: the five factors driving the growing epidemic of unmotivated boys and underachieving young men (Basic Books, 2007). He is founder and executive director of the National Association for Single Sex Public Education (www.singlesexschools.org).

A cover story for TIME Magazine March 7 2005 included this statement: "Until recently, there have been two groups of people: those who argue sex differences are innate and should be embraced and those who insist that they are learned and should be eliminated by changing the environment. Sax is one of the few in the middle -- convinced that boys and girls are innately different and that we must change the environment so differences don't become limitations." Full text of this article can be accessed via http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articl...

According to an article in the "Week in Review" section of the New York Times published June 11, 2006, Dr. Sax's first book Why Gender Matters is "a lucid guide to male and female brain differences." Full text of this article is available at http://select.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/opi...

Dr. Sax's second book Boys Adrift was reviewed by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in December 2007. According to the review, Boys Adrift is "powerfully and persuasively presented," and provides "excellent and informative references and information." Full text of the review can be accessed via http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/cont.ent/ex...
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