Positives can be found in every type of education, but there are just so many more positives for girls in a single-sex school. If co-ed environments produce better student outcomes, why are so many schools introducing single-sex classes or parallel education in order to improve academic results, especially in English for boys, and maths and science subjects for girls? Why are bullying rates of girls and boys so much higher in co-ed schools? And what are co-ed schools doing about the endemic gender bias and sexual harassment girls so often experience in their care? Research shows that girls thrive in a single-sex school environment. Credit: Erin Jonasson. There is simply no doubt that single-sex education benefits girls. Research shows unequivocally that girls thrive in an all-girls environment — they do better academically, socially and emotionally. Not just a single study but a plethora of data from across the world supports these findings. Girls in co-ed schools tend to be more self-conscious and less confident.
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I loved it. The number of single-sex independent schools in Britain has roughly halved since the Nineties. By contrast, the state secondary sector in England has virtually abandoned sex segregation: comprehensives in total are overwhelmingly co-educational, with just 5 per cent all girls and 3 per cent all boys. But where does that leave boys? Defenders of single-sex schools maintain that children benefit from separate teaching. Critics dismiss defences of gender segregation as pseudoscience, claiming that single-sex education perpetuates stereotypes: by segregating by sex, these schools suggest that gender is an insurmountable difference.
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Conceived and designed the experiments: SB. Performed the experiments: GC. Analyzed the data: SB GC. Sex differences in human social behaviors and abilities have long been a question of public and scientific interest. Females are usually assumed to be more socially oriented and skilful than males. However, despite an extensive literature, the very existence of sex differences remains a matter of discussion while some studies found no sex differences whereas others reported differences that were either congruent or not with gender stereotypes. Moreover, the magnitude, consistency and stability across time of the differences remain an open question, especially during childhood.
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