Interesting. Here in Norway, girls are outperforming boys in school at every level, and the gap between them gets bigger every year. A few years a go the gap was smallest in math, but I recently listen to a discussion on radio that said even that gap started to get bigger. One of the arguments that are used here often is that school is geard more towards girls than boys.
I have to read that book to understand why it seems to be so different in USA (I presume).
This is a common theme across all Western countries, see eg PISA & other OECD data and the excellent and detailed Eurostat statistics:
- Girls perform much better in most domains of education (in math & STEM the picture is more mixed)
- girls are less likely to drop out
- girls are more likely to go to university
- in nearly all subjects of university there are more girls than boys, except for a few hard sciences & engineering
- after university women are as they get older less and less likely to be in most science professions, less likely to be in management, more likely to stop/take a break from working (and then eventually never come back or vastly under their formal skills level)
I just looked up the Norwegian delegate to the International Math Olympiad. Unfortunately, males are still top heavy. There was only 1 female out of 6 spots.
I have to read that book to understand why it seems to be so different in USA (I presume).
Some links about the topic in norwegian: https://www.nrk.no/norge/jentene-tar-over-prestisjestudiene-... https://www.nrk.no/norge/_-guttene-ligger-langt-bak-jentene-... https://www.vg.no/nyheter/meninger/i/B7XG7/hvorfor-blir-gutt... https://www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/Jenter-flinkere-pa-sko...