EBALUAZIO ETA IKERKETAREN WEBLOG BEGIRALEA HEZKUNTZAN

"The extent to which males and females have different outcomes in education and the labour market is an extremely complex discussion. This report shows that there are, indeed, significant differences in many areas. The evolution of these differences provides some challenging issues for parents and educators.At the primary education level, studies by the IEA indicate few gender differences in science and mathematics, but a clear advantage to females in reading.At the secondary level, international data confirm an on-going advantage for females in reading, but also show differences in performance in favour of males in some areas of both mathematics and science. In fact, there has been an increase in the gender differences observed in reading from 2000 to 2006. It would seem that policy makers and educators could take note of this trend and investigate ways to arrest its development. The data also show that male and female students are making different tertiary education and career choices in relation to science, with females showing a preference for health related courses and males for computing science. Taking all the observations and analyses together it seems that gender differences are actually increasing as students get older."