Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Scientists now have compelling evidence that girls are smarter — or at least do better at school — than boys.
Girls outperform boys in educational achievement in 70% of the countries studied by researchers regardless of the level of gender, political, economic or social equality.
The University of Missouri and the University of Glasgow scientists studied the educational achievement levels of 1.5 million 15-year-olds from around the world using data collected between 2000 and 2010.
David Geary, Professor of Psychological Sciences in the College of Arts and Science at The University of Missouri, says girls are outperforming boys in reading, mathematics and science literacy even in countries where women’s liberties are severely restricted.
Boys outperform girls in only three countries or regions: Colombia, Costa Rica and the Indian state, Himachal Pradesh. Boys and girls had similar educational achievements in the US and the UK.
In countries known for relatively low gender equality ratings, such as Qatar, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, the educational achievement gap is relatively large and favours girls.
The one exception worldwide is among students in economically developed nations where high achieving boys outperform high achieving girls, researchers said.
“With the exception of high-achievers, boys have poorer educational outcomes than girls around the world, independent of social equality indicators,” said Gijsbert Stoet, reader in psychology at the University of Glasgow.
“Results show that a commitment to gender equality on its own is not enough to close the achievement gaps in global education; the gap is not increasing. Although it is vital that we promote gender equality in schools, we also need to make sure that we’re doing more to understand why these gaps, especially among boys, persist and what other policies we can develop to close them.”
The research has important implications for educational policy, the researchers said.
The study, “Sex differences in academic achievement are not related to political, economic or social equality”, is published in the journal Intelligence.
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The current system favours females. Being cooped up in a room listening to some adult pontificate stuff that's of no real value is not what the male human has evolved to be more active and physical. We are too academic and don't have enough vocational subjects.
+Joe Rogers Cmon ur acting like a totall BUMMA man! blah beh blagh You already heard it women just mature faster than men deal with it Dont try to act smarter
Being smart at school doesn't really matter a jot. What you do in life with whatever education you have managed to have is all that matters.
Really true but, seriously a jot come on man that's just dumb its obviously a lot
I agree Girls are way smarter than boys honestly BOYS would be nothing without girls!
i think that boys are nothing without girls who made them GIRLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Not surprised girls try to do things most of the time and there has been very hurtful laws towards females and YOU boys... should be grateful women exist cuz without women there wouldn't be boys
Sorry guys I guess damn girls are Smarter than boys :(
Girls are better
There's a confluence of reasons why girls out perform males in education. None of which is because females are smarter.One reason is because girls mature three to five years earlier than boys. This is a huge advantage.
A second reasons is the system favors the ways girls learn. The current system was put in place back in the 70's when boys excelled over girls. The system was reformed in such a way as to give girls a leg up on boys because they were behind. One of the things they did to help girls catch up was that they introduced course work into the curriculum something they knew girls would be better at and assigned a whopping 70% grade value to something they knew girls would be better at. Than to further give girls an advantage they decided to give behavior a grade value something they knew would help ensure boys get lower grades than girls.
They only assigned 20% grade value to exams because they knew boys did better on exams.So if they wanted to close the gender gap they should knock 70% for course work down to 50% and upgrade exams to 50% there-by giving 50% to something each gender is better at and get rid of any grade being applied to behavior.
Still there remains one other reason girls excel in education and that is because girls are fear motivated to work harder.How so? girls are being told that there is an old boy's net work out there that will always favor hiring boys unless girls out perform boys in education.Naturally everything else being equal the gender that works the hardest is going to out perform the other.
the solution is to start telling boys that if they don't perform at least as well as girls they won't get their fair share of high paying jobs and if they don't get a high paying job the girls that get then will regard you as weak and women aren't attracted to weak men. thus if you want to have relationships with girls and we know they do they must get the high paying jobs by at least performing as well as girls. This will fear motivate boys and because we know there is no difference in intelligence between the genders to warrant one gender out performing the other
boys will catch up and close the gender gap in education.
either close the gender gap in education or something wicked this way comes. that something wicked is girls are already as a result of out performing males in education asking why do we need men any more? what do we as a society do with things not needed? We get rid of them! This is why the gender gap in education must be closed before it put an end to men.
You no what i think of u deep toot u TALK TOO MUCH
+Joannna K. ikr girls run the world lol
i think girls are better than boys because we are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sooooo are U apparently the article now? yawn* :0
Who run the world (girls) lol :P
Who run the world (girls) lol :P
+Wakkie R Finally someone who is on the same page as meh lol
Hey girls imma guy by the way um.. and im here commenting for the guys so ya anywho i wanna say that according to +Deep think s comment girls are not necessarily smarter than boys they just mature much faster so ya they are not smarter therefore girls mature much faster they are not smarter :0 :p whos laughing now haha
+Lisha Allop lol
> Really guys leave everyone on this website alone sorry website people we just have a project on this thing are girls smarter than boys? and once everyone found out u could comment on this website everyone went crazy!
Thank u guys anyway for this info i can now do my research project! >-
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You know, the guy who said that girls have an advantage in education is wrong. First of all, there is no way to prove that people made the system favor girls. And its also not true that men tend to do better at exams. Its just a matter of who studies more for the exam. Therefore, girls and boys have an equal chance of doing well in school.
But really, school really is not a good way to measure who's smarter. A lot of things, like spatial skills or the ability to identify plants, are not used or even mentioned in school. So really, this article just proves that girls try much harder than boys at school : ).