New study sheds light on girls' resilience and the academic gender gap
New study sheds light on girls' resilience and the academic gender gap
- July 18, 2016
- Andrew Penner, sociologist, comments on new study in WWSB, July 18, 2016
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"If you look at how boys and girls feel about schools across a number of different countries," said Andrew Penner, a sociologist at UC Irvine, "the only one where we have data in which boys say they like school more than girls is Indonesia."
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