How does gender affect our education system?
The growing gap between boys and girls in education has recently been getting more attention. This infographic from Bachelor of Education Degrees lays out some of the reasons for this growing gap, reasons like the increase in Autism diagnoses’ which affects 1 in 54 boys, certain environmental factors, and other learning disabilities like ADHD.
The language centers of girls’ brain do develop earlier. I wonder if this is innate, or it’s a function of how boys and girls are socialized.