An Essay Arguing about Whether Social Class or Gender of a Person Influences Their Educational Achievement

The arguments put forward to explain gender differences, seem almost obsolete now, and According to the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (August 2000 results) girls are now surpassing boys in certain subjects at the key 'mile stones' in education. Perhaps the major cause of this is the introduction of single sex schools and the impact of feminism upon the media and Politians, never the less as they approach into the labor market, discriminatory practices become more powerful. Furthermore as Dr Gillian Plummer's title of her article (Times, September, 2000) suggests: 'Forget gender, class is still the real divide'. She argues that reports of girls success mask the true picture and that perhaps the only reason for increasing success among girls is among the middle classes and so she challenges the government: 'what action is Labor taking to raise the academic performance of working class girls.…