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BOYS AND GIRLS DO BETTER AT SCHOOL IF THEY INTERACT LESS WITH THE OPPOSITE SEX
GENDER
APARTHEID
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S
eeing that, according to the
Cape Times, I don’t believe
in gender parity, I might as
well go the full distance and call
for gender apartheid. Yes, I want
separate neighbourhoods for boys
and girls, separate beaches and
benches, separate entrances to
public buildings. Heck, I might
even demand separate homelands
for men and women. And to be
honest, this will be much easier
than implementing racial apartheid
because we already have separate
schools, separate sports teams and
separate toilets. You might think that
I do this because I believe that one
gender is somehow inferior to the
other, but in fact I’m basing my big
plan for gender apartheid on science
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which says that separate gender
development is better for both sexes.
According to a paper published
in the American Economic Journal:
Applied Economics, boys and girls
BOY MEETS
GIRL: NOW
EXPECT THEIR
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DROP”
do better at school if they interact
less with the opposite sex. Here is
the blurb for Andrew Hill’s paper
The Girl Next Door: The Effect of
Opposite Gender Friends on High
School Achievement: This paper finds
that a student’s share of opposite
gender school friends negatively
affects high school GPA (grades).
It uses the gender composition
of schoolmates in an individual’s
neighbourhood as an instrument
for the gender composition of an
individual’s self-reported friendship
network. The effect occurs across all
subjects for individuals older than
sixteen, but only in mathematics
and science for younger students.
Additional results indicate effects
may operate inside the classroom
through difficulties getting along with
the teacher and paying attention,
and outside the classroom through
romantic relationships. Hill’s paper
comes at a time when there is some
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