Women Suck!

[andrewducker]

Studies have shown that girls do better in all girl's schools than they do in mixed schools.

Which makes this study particularly interesting.

It's hard to summarise more than it already is, but it shows that when women compete with men and women they don't improve their performance significantly, whereas men do. Women competing solely with Women _do_ improve their performance, it's just when competing in mixed circumstances that they don't seem to improve as much.

I'm not sure what's going on, but it definitely deserves researching in more details to see what's going on.

Comments

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Dale Spender did the research years ago: check out Invisible Women: the Schooling Scandal (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0906495938/absolutsearch09/026-6774958-1375604).

[nickys.livejournal.com]

Partially it's that boys tend to be more disruptive when ignored, so teachers give more attention to the boys just for the sake of keeping order.

Beyond a certain age as well there's a social pressure on girls to underperform or be considered unattractive to boys.
Sadly certain proportion of the male population don't think it's right that their partners should either earn more than them or do better in exams than them.

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Down here in NZ I'd been given to believe that girls do best in mixed schools and boys in single-sex schools. This is based on the qualifications they receive mind, not any individual tests such as a maze-running experiment.

And that's also based on my memory, so I'd better do a search to see if there's anything online to back me up...