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Explain more fully the nature of the ‘gender gap’ in examination results. To what extent should it be considered a problem?
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Following the publication of GCSE results this year a Guardian newspaper headline (25 August 2006 p14) read 'Boys narrow gender gap'. Explain more fully the nature of the 'gender gap' in examination results. To what extent should it be considered a problem? Compulsory education is a requirement set by law, in which all individuals aged from the age of 6-14 must receive. Due to compulsory education being an obligation set by the state, it is down to those in power to see that all of society can afford to place their children within it. There is a prominent notion when looking at the concept of education, this notion being gender. Gender is determined by an individual's actions concerning their sex, allowing them to be perceived as masculine or feminine, this in turn has been seen to have an effect upon the subjects taken by adolescents within secondary school and indeed the quality...
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