Children : Learning and Gender

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Children Learning and Gender Muriel
Egerton ISER University of Essex
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Aim of Presentation

• Better educational performance of girls
• Sex-roles?
• Do leisure and school activities differ?
• Do highly educated parents equalise
• effects?

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Summary

• Different patterns of leisure activity by age
  8-10
• Girls read more by age 8-10
• But difference less for children of highly
  educated
• Boys do more computing
• Little difference by parents education
• Highly educated parents do more teaching,
  talking
• reading and playing with children

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Policy questions Contact Richard
White Richard.White_at_dfes.gsi.gov.uk
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