What Are The Reasons For The Improvement in Girls Educational Achievements in Recent Years?

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Girls’ education has improved vastly in the last 10- 15 years. There are so many reasons for this rapid change. Many people may say it is because of the feminists. Others may think it is because boys have become lazier, or girls have stated taking a greater interest in education and their careers.

After the feminist party came, girls had started being seen differently and not just as the typical housewives, who did the cooking, cleaning, washing and ironing, sewing and other domestic chores as well as raising the children and looking after other people in the family, while men were the breadwinners and earned all the money. Girls do not want to be dependant on men anymore and want to become something, with their own identity. They want to be independent, not having to rely on someone else to do things for them; they want their freedom: girls do not want to be like those women who were unable to become something and are now relying on government or other people to give them money. They want to be themselves, without people interfering in their lives. They want people to be proud of them for being better than boys, or being just as good. Boys were always given more rights than girls and now that is something girls want changed, and one of the biggest ways they can do that is by being educated.    

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As said previously, girls’ education has improved rapidly over the past 10 years. The percentage of girls with 5+ A-C GCSE grades in 1992-1993 was 45.8% and had risen to 47.8% in 1993-1994. However, for boys the statistics were not so good; with 36.8% 5+ A-C passes for their GCSE’s in 1992-93 and 39.1% in 1993-94. This shows us that girls’ education has improved and is becoming better than that of boys. The reason for the improvement in girl’s education could also be that boys are becoming lazier in school, or have begun to pose a negative attitude towards ...

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