Why Girls Are Better Than Boys

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Seun Adegboye. Why girls achieve better results than boys. There are many reasons why girls achieve better results than boys in education. It has been proven that traditionally that boys mature later than girls, who have always been ahead in language since primary school. It is proven that the average boy is nine months behind the average girl in development of speaking skills. The gap between girls and boys in reading and writing continues into Key Stage 3 where it widens to up to a 15% difference in 2002. Only in Mathematics do boys outperform girls by a small margin (2.8% in 1998 and 0% in 2002). Female expectation and their behaviour also contribute to the fact that girls are doing better than boys statistically and I will now assess some of these factors. Female expectations have changed over the years. Sue Sharpe did some research in 1976 and discovered that girls’ priorities were ‘love, marriage, husbands and children over their jobs and careers. When the research was repeated in 1994, she found out that those priorities had changed to ‘job, careers and being over to support themselves above all other priorities. Maybe this could be an explanation of why girls are achieving better results than boys are it shows that girls are more motivated and want to succeed in their education, to push further their future careers. According to Francis and Skeleton in 2005, in primary and secondary school, girls saw their chosen careers as reflecting their identity as a vehicle for future fulfilment. There has been an increase in the job opportunities for women which causes a rise in their ambitions, to leading them in higher- status and well-paid positions. This makes it easier for girls to gain their good grades in school as they have the ambition and motivation. A change in the structure of job opportunities, especially the decline in manual work, has led Mac an
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