Statistics Canada says that young men (teenagers) are less likely to attend universities than young women (teenagers). The new study attributes the difference in academic performances, study habits at the age of 15, and parental expectations.
StatsCan says that 1/4th (26%) of 19year-old young men only attended universities in 2003 while 2/5th (39%) of 19year-old young women are attending universities.
StatsCan found out that 77% was different in the characteristics of young men and women that were available in the study. The poorer academic performances were performed by young-men which accounted for almost half of the gap. Young men performed lower overall school average in the age of 15 years old and had performed weaker performance on a standardized reading test.
Another 11% of the gap was shown that the young men are spending far less time on their homework that girls and approximately 9% was related with the lower educational expectations placed upon boys by their parents.
The study was shown that men women have different characteristics at the age of 15. For example, only 33% of young men are receiving overall average of 80% or higher in their schools while 46% of young women are receiving the same.
Also, only 20% of the young men received in the top mark in standardized reading test when here were 30% of young women were getting top mark.
In my opinion, there are students who are willing to work and who are not willing to work in both genre (boys and girls). I don’t think that girls or boys are better than each other but I think that girls are more “passionate” about studying. I recommend boys to start study harder than before and let’s catch up to the girls!
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