tional Statistics (NCES) on Trends in Educational Equity of Girls and Women. This evidence was exactly what I needed because it was a believable source with cold, hard facts.!
             According to this survey, data shows that "in school and colleges, females are now doing as well or better than males on many of the indicators of educational attainment, and the large gaps in educational attainment between men and women have, in most cases, been eliminated or significantly decreased" (NCES, 2). As I continued to read further, I was very impressed with the statistics that were given to back up this statement. In the car with my mother that day, she was stating how boys and girls are usually equal in education until around the average age of nine, where this suddenly changes and males take the lead. She said this could be attributed to the fact that in life, society holds such strong stereotypes of women that it is considered "unladylike" for a women to outperform a man in anything she does. In high school, girls are trying to impress boys and usually end up degrading themselves in the process as to make the boy feel better. This stereotype is what suppos!
             edly enables the boys to jump ahead in the educational aspects of life. But according to this survey, I was please to find out this was not entirely correct. "Evidence shows that girls are perceived as adjusting more readily than boys to be described by their parents as near the top of their class, with fifty-one percent being girls and forty-one percent boys.
             I was curious as to why I had been previously misinformed and found it interesting to research some of the possible reasons as to girls could be ahead of boys in education, and I was surprised to find out a few basic facts about education. According to the survey, girls seem to have fewer problems with school in the early grades than do boys. Girls are also less likely to have parents contacted b...