I am increasingly thinking that boys in general tend to express their dissatisfaction with learning environment fit more directly than girls do in general (ie more likely to get school refusal "because it's boring", "we never learn anything", etc. while girls seem in general more likely to complain less directly but develop other (often more self destructive rather than disruptive) manifestations of discontent - procrastination, extreme negative perfectionism, etc. maybe crying at home because "they hate school" or "there's no one like me" "I have no friends" etc. Doesn't mean the root cause is not the same, or that boys or girls are more or less driven... Note that I am generalizing and there will be plenty of exceptions.
