Today’s question is another request – this time on Gender and Education. Ten markers on this topic can go a number of ways – Internal factors, external factors, subject choice, boys underachieving, girls underachieving, experience of students. It is one I shall revisit over the 40 days from a slightly different angle, but this question is a little more straightforward than the others. The difficulty with this type of question is drawing the hooks from the items and staying focused on the reasons for girl’s overachievement as being caused by those hooks. The question is:

Yesterday’s question on Post-modernity proved popular and can be found here https://thesociologyguy.com/model-answers/