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sarahbakayoko5y ago
**The school system, whilst seeming to favour one sex over another, disservices both genders in different ways.**
- In recent years, girls have been outperforming boys in school. The switch to teacher-based assessments (due to covid) saw girls [outperforming boys for a second year in a row in A-Levels] (https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/aug/10/a-level-results-top-5-data-takeaways )
- However, research suggested that final exam based results favoured boys more than girls. [This report](https://epi.org.uk/publications-and-research/analysis-a-level-results-2021/) indicates that girls have been successful in achieving the highest grades when their teachers are giving out grades. When things go back to ‘normal’, will this pattern resort back to boys outperforming girls?
- College and university admissions have increased in both genders, however, there are [more girls at university than boys](https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2020/03/07/mind-the-gap-gender-differences-in-higher-education/)
- A biological explanation argued in [this article](https://www.ft.com/content/3b2509f2-fda2-11e8-aebf-99e208d3e521 ) suggests that girls mature earlier, given books sooner and learn more as a result. Furthermore, the ‘boys will be boys’ mentality still prevails today and may hinder learning as a result.
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OceanWave5y ago
They benefit boys more I think. I mean the boys have way more options in clubs and dressing.
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Nsoper194y ago
Girls do better in school based education across pretty much all countries, systems, languages etc. It's basically a universal thing that girls do better than boys at school and get better grades. So from that I think it can be argued that it benefits girls more because statistically it absolutely does. Don't really see how there can be an argument against that?
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