Sentences with phrase «boys than girls considered»

The Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) highlights a continuing gender disparity when it comes to school readiness, with more boys than girls considered «developmentally vulnerable».

Not exact matches

As in many countries in the world, girls are considered by family members to be less worthy of life and respect than are boys.

The fortunes of Boys and Girls High School, a venerable but long - struggling school that the de Blasio administration pledged to revive, took another turn this week, when its principal said he was considering leaving for a different job after less than two years.

Mean girls, cute boys and crazy parties might be considered stereotypical or overdone college - movie tropes, but Life of the Party pairs them with actual classrooms and libraries, making for a more realistic depiction of the college experience than most comedies.

However, considering each aspect we found that girls were faced with more emotional problems than boys, the average score they achieved is 4.36 and it is 3.47 for boys and the statistically significant difference was t (441) = 3.929, p = 0.00; while boys had more conduct problems than girls (the average score is 2.08 and 1.68, respectively and t (443) = 2.195, p = 0.02.

Two studies have identified groups of girls exhibiting chronically high levels of antisocial behavior across childhood and early adolescence and having an increased risk for continued antisocial behavior.60 In addition, Odgers and several colleagues found that 7.5 percent of all girls between the ages of seven and fifteen displayed an early - onset of offending that persisted into adolescence and that this pattern was similar to boys of the same age.61 Other studies suggest that although strongly aggressive behavior in girls before the age of seven is rare, continuity of offending for such girls may be stronger than that among comparable boys and that such early problem behavior in girls should be considered a significant warning sign of potential future problems.62

Cecilia Saulters - Tubbs found that district attorneys were less likely to file charges against female drug offenders than against male offenders, while Donna Bishop and Charles Frazier found, similarly, that boys were treated more punitively than girls for delinquency offenses and that girls were less likely than boys to receive a sentence involving incarceration.10 Such studies suggest that the system treats girls as less criminally dangerous than boys.11 Other research, however, notes that once legal variables are controlled, girls are treated similarly to boys in the early stages of court processing but more harshly in the later stages.12 Earlier studies pointing toward more «chivalrous» treatment of girls may thus have failed to consider differences in the underlying seriousness of the offenses involved.

Although girls registered with HCWAP were diagnosed, on average, 1 month earlier (48 months) than boys (49 months), this difference was not significant considering the conservative α adopted (U = 17 177 845; z = − 2.06; P = 0.04; r = 0.02).