While I was driving in the car a few months ago, my mother and I were talking about the various stereotypes of students, which lead into a discussion of gender inequity. Who is better-males or females? That is something that many people are still arguing throughout the world today. My mother stated that "various studies have shown that men are, and always have been, better than women." Is this really true? My hypothesis is that this is incorrect and that women are at least equal with men in education. This statement irritated me and I found myself wanting to disprove the belief that men are superior to women in education because I find this fact disturbing for a country that promotes equality in both males in females. The issue of gender inequity is one that has been publicly reverberating throughout society for decades-the problem of gender inequity in education being one of the more pressing issues of today. This paper will examine the true statistics of gender ineq!
             uity and hopefully disprove what little knowledge I have of this subject matter. It will also tackle what is being done to remedy the situation.
             In a slow attempt at starting this research for this paper, I quickly turned to the Internet to find any and all literary sources that would aid me in my search. Although I found many interesting articles on this topic, I felt that most of them were bias it was hard weeding through the sites that were not believable as opposed to those that were. One problem with the websites is that most of the sites I found disproving the problem were mostly written by radical feminists stating that all men are basically suppressing women and their abilities. In researching further, I did find some websites that were of use to my search, but the most significant of my findings was from my Gender Inequalities teacher, Professor Clark, who handed me a copy of a survey conducted in 1996 by the National Center for Educa...