Examine the reasons why female educational achievement has improved in recent years

... Examine the reasons why female educational achievement has improved in recent years. (20 marks) The issue that has addressed in this question is why female education achievement has improved in recent years as from average marks females have overtaken males in KS1, 2 and 3 and in GCSE scores. I am going to study the reasons to why this has happened in my essay. One reason may be due to the way parents treat their sons and daughters traditionally when they are young, having the males go out and play, learning actively and the girls stay in, read or have friends round. Therefore this may lead to learning better social skills than the males and learning more at a younger age. This may then indicate on later life why males struggle behind females. Something that has changed over the last 15 years are the attitudes of females, before this the priorities of

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