A level exams taken, by gender

You would think that due to the amount of sucking that some of them do

You take the same subjects as I do And when i tell people i'm applying for Maths they all go O_o.

I personally think the gender divide within subjects is down to the way a school operates. For instance at my school, they actively encourage people to apply for Medicine at University meaning we have large numbers of girls (I'm at an all girls school) taking Biology/Chemistry/Maths, as this is what the universities want them to take, and relatively few (for my year group it's only 6 people) taking Physics.

However at the mixed school across the road, there are more people taking Physics than there are Biology and Chemistry and the girls out number the boys...

Yep I find these stats close to what I have observed.I met about 20 girls taking physics for their A-levels.It got even worse in A2 when there were only two girls in each group.
For some reason physics is dominated by XY.

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Oh my, that's awesome! You're probably the first person I know who has the same subject combination

Well, yes I do think it depends on how the school runs it. My school's very good at encouraging weaker students to take weak subjects. And we do have a lot of asian people here (including myself) who are quite stereotypical genderwise when it coems to subject choices.

But I come from a family of female scientists. My mother did her masters in Physics, , my aunt is a Research Physicist, and many of my other family members did science subjects like Biology and such, so I suppose that may also have something to do with why I was quite bold with my choices





Dont worry. I'm going to have lots of children and make sure all the girls do physics and that all the boys do girly subjects just to try and break stereotypes

They say that girls outperform boys in A levels in terms of their grade average. Nice to see the statistic that explains why this is the case.
The guys tend to take the harder subjects.
An A level in Media, Photography and ESPECIALLY Art are much easier than an A level in something like Chemistry and Physics. Don't start this 'Oh it depends on what you're good at, mathematical stuff or more arty stuff'.

Have you seen the amount of work they do for A level art?! Even if I was remotely good at arty things I'd be terrified to take it for A level!

Eugh Computing! What an awful subject >.<, yes I do it at AS

If it's the former, it could just be because they are picking subjects that are easier, or at least more suited to girls for some reason.

This is from some newspaper:



Look at the subjects along the bottom and see if you notice a trend in their nature, content and demands.

1) Why do you think boys and girls choose certain subjects over others? Genetic predilection? Invisible bias in the education system? An awareness by most girls that they will perform poorly in certain subjects?

2) Is this a "problem"? Do you think we need 50% of each gender in every subject? If so, why? And how would you achieve this - incentives and handicaps to get people in/out of the subjects? Systematic influence of children to ensure identical interests across the genders once in their teens?

Where is this graph from?

Notice how "Science subjects" are marked as the second most highly male dominated! Shocker!

Look closer, and realise that Biology and Chemistry both have their own indicators, and are both fairly close to the 50 - 50 mark. Biology is even swinging towards more girls.

Pathetic graph is pathetic.

I made it with data from a Guardian article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/aug/19/a-levels-results-analysis-subject-school




Not very shocking, really. I don't know what "Science Subjects" means, though - if it's a compilation of bio, chem, physics... or if it's "other science subjects" in some sense.



Correct. Biology is 43.6:56.4, m:f



any reason?

This is from some newspaper:



Look at the subjects along the bottom and see if you notice a trend in their nature, content and demands.

1) Why do you think boys and girls choose certain subjects over others? Genetic predilection? Invisible bias in the education system? An awareness by most girls that they will perform poorly in certain subjects?

2) Is this a "problem"? Do you think we need 50% of each gender in every subject? If so, why? And how would you achieve this - incentives and handicaps to get people in/out of the subjects? Systematic influence of children to ensure identical interests across the genders once in their teens?