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Why girls do better than boys?Adapted with
grateful thanks byProf. V. Viswanadham
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Why girls do better than boys?

• Feminism
• the traditional stereotype of women
• having to spend their lives behind a kitchen
  sink
• have now faded and
• girls can now imagine
• a life beyond motherhood/housewife

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Why girls do better than boys?

• Equal opportunities
• the educational underperformance of girls
• in the past resulted in schools
• meeting the needs of girls more,
• this was mainly due to
• teachers having a bias towards
• boys achievements rather than girls

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Why girls do better than boys?

• Increasing ambition and job opportunities
• a growing number of jobs for women
• in the service sector,
• has inspired them to pursue careers.
• The extent of this shift is evident from the
  research of Sue Sharpe Just Like a Girl who
  found
• girls priorities in 1976 were

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Why girls do better than boys?
Girls priorities in 1976 were love
marriage, husbands, children, jobs and
careers in that order.
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Why girls do better than boys?
When Sue Sharpe conducted the same research in
1994 she found the priorities had changed to
job, career and being able to support
themselves
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Why girls do better than boys?
in 1994 the priorities had changed to job,
career and being able to support themselves
Girls priorities in 1976 were love
marriage, husbands, children, jobs and
careers in that order.
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Why girls do better than boys?

• Increasing ambition and job opportunities
• shows the extent of changing
• female ambitions

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Why girls do better than boys?

• Girls work harder than boys
• theres an increasing amount of evidence
• to show that girls in general are
• more committed and motivated
• to school work.
• They take more pride and tend to do
• any homework properly.
• Plus theyre better organised for
• meeting deadlines.

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No wondergirls do better than boys
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