Gender in education
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Gender in education
There is a considerable difference between males and females in education. Some of these differences occur due to participation levels, the level of education in which the student is at, and the comparative differences between major cities and rural schools.
It has been shown that there is a 12 percent difference between male and females in year 12 schooling. In Luck Slattery's 'It's a bloke thing' 'only 15 percent of Australian boys lack the literacy skills to benefit from there schooling. Furthermore the National Schools Statistics Collection survey on year 7/8 to year 12 apparent retention rate shows that in 1970 males participation rates were at 37 percent whilst females were at 28 percent. Occurring around the time when males provided for the family and only the middle and higher class families could afford schooling the difference of 9 percent is understandable. Where as in the 2000 survey, male's level of participation was a 66 percent and the female's level was a 79 percent. This shows a considerable rise in the amount of students attending secondary school. The increase in males has been less then the increase in females but the pressure to provide for your family isn't a strong. The decrease in male participation could also be due to maturity levels, the course structure and the method used by the teacher...