The Education Gap

TheTinMenBlog · 2020-09-30T14:16:06+00:00

Although in the developing world and particularly Africa, it is girls who are left behind in education. The same is not true in much of the West. In fact, both the US and UK have watched boys and young men fall further and further behind in education, year after year, for decades, with no concerted effort to address or close the education gap. A US girl born in 2016 is now 75% more likely to go onto higher education than a boy, are we okay with that?

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National Centre for Education Statistics

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/current_tables.asp

Source: OECD https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/the-abc-of-gender-equality-in-education_9789264229945-en;jsessionid=meQkYbNZGB7k2AKO8wxbUYcJ.ip-10-240-5-7

http://www.oecd.org/education/imhe/02%20June%20-%20closing%20the%20gender%20gap%20What%20it%20means%20for%20higher%20education.pdf

Boys Behind Girls for Three Decades, BBC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-51313438

Long-Chair-7825 · 2020-09-30T22:34:50+00:00

Also worth noting that there are iniatives for girls education, but only rarely for boys.

OkLetterhead9 · 2020-10-01T10:43:58+00:00

Although in the developing world and particularly Africa, it is girls who are left behind in education. The same is not true in much of the West.

In Iran women represent 67% of college graduates, in Algeria 60% are females. in Tunisia Morroco and a lot of other third world countries the same percentage ..

Framing the education gap as a western problem is false.

Title	The Education Gap
Author	TheTinMenBlog
Upvotes	71
Comments	10
Date	September 30, 2020 2:14 PM UTC (5 years ago)
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