Gender and Education

It is safe to say that gender inequality is very much around and very prominent in most schools in our society today. Girls are seen as more intellectual and "smart" than boys and thought to be more successful academically, while being taught that sitting quietly and focusing on her social status is equally important to boys focusing on their independency. This article titled Gender Bias in Education by Amanda Chapman includes a lot of information on how boys and girls in school districts are looked at completely differently both education wise as well as socially.

This website is all about gender differences and its role in education; how it affects both ends of the line. It lists some of the disadvantages for both boys and girls, as well as ways in which both genders cope with certain experiences differently and whether or not they should be educated in completely separate classrooms.

Of course the most common place in which gender bias takes place is within the sports' teams at school. The teams are divided into boys only teams as well as girls only teams; and we can all guess which one of these two groups gets better privileges for their sport. 

The Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations had a pole to see whether or not the public agreed with the fact that female athletes would play on all boys' sports teams. It was really interesting to see what the public had to say about this topic in their comments on this article.

This article even has statistical data proving that females are well capable of being just as successful as males in their ability to do math, however girls are more apt to have confidence issues when it comes to their math abilities.

All of this research is so contradictory because there are so many studies that say girls are more successful than boys in schools because of either the way they are taught or the way they are programed to learn, and other studies say that boys are more successful because they have more confidence than girls in their academic abilities. This article basically just talks about "gender gaps" and how boys and girls act very differently and learn differently in schools.

All of this information that I read and found is such good proof that there is still a large group of people that do not believe girls and boys are equal in any way, shape, or form. I think that every human being learns a different way and is successful in their own way and whatever that way may be has nothing to do on whether or not you are a female or a male.