Sentences with phrase «university than boys»

Four of the country's universities currently reside in the top ten in the world rankings and it is female students in particular who are making the most of this respected higher education structure — they are more than a third more likely to go to university than boys.

Four of the country's universities currently reside in the top ten in the world rankings — Cambridge, Oxford, UCL and ICL — and it is female students in particular who are making the most of this respected higher education structure — they are more than a third more likely to go to university than boys.

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In light of a few things that happened of late — the Supreme Court's ruling on marriage for same - sex couples, the addition of the word cisgender into the Oxford English Dictionary, the rise of the transgender movement, with Germany leading the way for parents to register their baby as something other than just boy or girl, the increase in stay - at home dads and egalitarian marriages, universities recognizing a third gender, the desire by some to be called they versus he or she, the declaration that 2015 is the year of the gender - neutral baby, it's clear we are moving toward a society that is busting up traditional views of gender and what men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers look and act like.

One key barrier to application seemed to be the university's continuing image as a white, male institution, and appointments, particularly for more senior posts, were assumed to be based on an «old boys network», rather than on merit.

According to behavioral studies, even in kindergarten and first grade, girls are more articulate than boys, their handwriting is more legible, and they're quicker at answering questions, says Louann Brizendine, a neuropsychiatrist at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and author of The Female Brain.

But new research from Duke University suggests something quite different may be at play: Girls may be hardier than boys, even in the womb, and may be better able to survive pregnancies stressed by a troubled marriage.

The new finding is consistent with what is known about how other chemicals affect boys more than girls, said David Carpenter, director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University at Albany.

Today Erin's boys participate in individualized programs at school and are being monitored in two national studies of families with more than one autistic child — one at the Duke Center for Human Genetics, another at the University of Washington.

When it comes to mathematics, girls rate their abilities markedly lower than boys, even when there is no observable difference between the two, according to Florida State University researchers.

A large - scale study led by the University of Exeter has found that boys are more likely to be stillborn than girls.

The American Association of University Women (AAUW) published a series of studies in the 1990s called Shortchanging Girls, Shortchanging America, which highlighted the fact that girls aged 9 to 15 suffered from lower self - esteem, less willingness to stand up for their views with teachers, and lower interest in science and mathematics than boys.

Dr. B. Lynn Ware, president & CEO of Integral Talent Systems, reported in Corporate Universities: Lessons in Building a World - class Work Force that retention and absorption levels through gamification are ten times higher than through traditional learning techniques or computer - based learning.The Boy and Girl Scouts of America have effectively used gamification techniques for years.

CJ Pascoe, a professor at Colorado State University, spent more than a year observing boys in a high school in California's Central Valley, a conservative district some of the locals describe as «right out of Iowa.»

Even though more women and girls are getting college degrees and scoring in the top ranks on national math tests than was the case in the 1970s, their academic gains have not come at the expense of boys, says a report by the American Association of University Women.

Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro conducted a longitudinal study of almost 1,000 elementary school students and reported that teachers had higher expectations for the reading achievement of girls than boys.

I've got — I'm well over than 30, I've got two boys, one is in his 20's and in his third year of university and one is 17.

Researchers at Columbia University found that the presence of a Boys or Girls Club in a public housing project reduced crime rates by 13 percent and drug use by more than 20 percent.

Our girls should not be looking at a future where the likelihood of incarceration is greater than a university education, and nor should our boys.