... To bring girls more into line the curriculum has been altered to make it more 'girl friendly'. They also set up projects like GIST (Girls into Science and Technology) and GATE (Girls and Technology Education), and this 'girl friendliness' may have disadvantaged boys. As Mitsos and Brown point out, in the curriculum there is a greater emphasis on coursework. Research has shown that a fourteen-year-old girl can concentrate for three to four times longer than a boy of the same age. Girls are also more organised, they bring the right equipment and meet deadlines, and these are skills that are required for coursework. Brown (1996) also points out that the equal opportunity committee (1989) showed that schools were spending more on boys' curricular and extra-curricular sporting activities. This could show that, for boys, too much emphasis is placed on sporting activities and not enough on educational achievement so therefore they ...

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