GIRLS R OCK, B OYS R OLL: AN A NAL Y SI S O F T H E A G E 1 4 -1 6 GENDER G AP I N E N GLISH S C HOOLS

By Simon Burgess, Deborah Wilson. 2004

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Top of the Class: The Importance of Ordinal Rank (2018, background): “In the case of gender, a gap occurs by subject, where males are overly represented in STEM subjects by the age of 18, despite girls outperforming boys at early ages in these subjects but in particular in languages (15; 44).”
Gender and Student Achievement in English Schools (2005, methodology): “However according to Burgess et al. (2004), there is a high degree of collinearity between ‘single sex’ status and whether the school is a grammar school.”
The Reversal of Gender Inequalities in Higher Education (2008, background): “However, the gap in favour of women is to be found in all social environments in countries such as France, the United States or the United Kingdom and, in the first two instances, is more pronounced in the least advantaged social groups or minorities (Brinbaum and Kieffer, 2007; Buchmann and DiPrete”