Different areas

• Teachers' assessments of pupils at the end of year one showed girls ahead of boys by 7 to 17 percentage points in all seven areas of learning assessed

  2013
• In state primary school, boys were 2 1⁄2 times more likely than girls to have statements of special educational needs
• At key stages 1-3


  Girls do consistently better than boys, especially in English where the gender gap steadily widens with age
• In science and math


  The gender gap is much narrower, but girls still do better
• At GCSE, the gender gap stands at around 10 percentage points
• At AS/A level, girls are more likely to sit and get higher grades than boys
• 46.8% of girls gained A or B at A-level, but only 42.2% of boys did
• Even in boys' subjects like maths and physics, girls were more likely than boys to get grades A-C
• On vocational courses, a large proportion of girls achieve distinctions in every subject, including those as engineering and construction where girls are a minority