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Sarah Walker An investigation into the reasons why males are underachieving in education Background and Significance Until the late 1980's the concern in education was girls underachievement. This was because in the earlier stages of education, girls outperformed boys. However, from GCSE level, girls fell behind boys and were less likely to gain three A Levels and progress into higher education. A major change occurred in the early 1990's when girls outperformed boys in all areas and at all levels of the education system. Boy's underachievement suddenly became the major concern The general trend in attainment over recent years has been both upward female and male attainment, however the females improve more leading to an increasingly wider gender gap. Now that trends have been identified, we can speculate reasons. When sociologists first investigated gender, the focus was on female underachievement in education, and the ways that traditional ideas about the proper role of women...

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