Gender inequalities in school

             The study conducted explored the elements, which affect male and/or female students in a learning environment. The results indicate that male students may be more likely to be considered bourdons in the educational process than assets. Also, the consideration of implementing single-sex classrooms was taken into deliberation, and how the effects of single-sex classes could better aid female students advancement.
             The educational opportunity available to youth is universally available to all males and females alike in the United States. Or is it? Numerous studies examine the inequalities of education between genders. Studies range in subject matter from terms of educational access, attainment, to field studies. The value of educational research, and more particularly, its contribution to theory and knowledge has recently come under a series of sustained attacks. Moreover, the focus of the studies often times depict females as the victims within the educational system without regard to males and their perceived access to the education process.
             One theme of the topic Gender and Education assumes one unmitigated axiom that woman and men interact differently. Deborah Tannen, the founder of Genderlect Styles theory, supports this opinion. She clams that male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication. It is also believed that female communication focuses on connection, and in contrast, male communication focuses on trying to achieve status and maintain independence. Where does this difference in communication style come from? Many communication scholars argue that our educational system creates and encourages these differences. (Griffin, 2003).
             Qualitative studies far outnumber the quantitative reports available. Many researchers argue that the product of qualitative research should be a trustworthy report, that is accessible to a wide educational audience, with bias-free data, subjective distortion and capable of fresh insi...

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