This is why girls from single-sex schools buck the trend when it comes to participation in areas that have been traditionally male-dominated, such as STEM and economics, opening the door for girls to pursue tertiary studies and careers in the highly skilled and more highly paid areas of engineering, computing, business and entrepreneurship.
However, perhaps the strong evidence favouring single-sex schooling is that so many co-ed schools are trying to replicate the benefits of single-sex schools by implementing single-sex classes or introducing parallel/diamond models that separate the sexes, all the while claiming that co-ed schooling is preferable because it replicates the real world – and it does.
Their parents being masters of the universe play any role you think?
Girls schools breed division and sexism.
Put the alternate article from today’s Age on Twitter as well, you dimwits.
Should you? I beg to differ. It's very 1870ies you know. And I bet school uniform is an uncomfortable dress 'covering up' genderbias outlandish
What's wrong with girls?
Not sure that when education is pursued cloistered from half of your social peers that resilience and fearlessness in the larger world are logical results. Over-confidence, maybe. Certainly my uni peers from single-sex schools seemed to have struggled with the social transition.
Not for me ...
Completely unbiased view here...... from the Executive Officer of the Alliance of Girls’ Schools Australasia. Meanwhile, all the research points to a complete lack of efficacy behind the argument
Agree mlckew helped me become the woman I am