... stay on for further education and want to start a career before thinking about a family. Before, jobs such as doctors and teachers were mostly male dominated and women were given jobs such as secretary and nurses. There are also more subjects introduced such as Drama and Dance, because there are more creative subjects- as the female uses the left side more than the male, meaning they then have an advantage in these subjects as the left side of the brain is the creative side, this may raise averages for females. Another reason why males may not achieve as well as females may be that teacher tend to treat their male and female students differently, an example of this is they tend to punish males harsher then the female students and get in more trouble than if a female student did it. Because this happens in classrooms, it may encourage the ...

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