Gender and schooling

Since the passage of Title IX in 1972, there has been significant progress in ensuring equal educational opportunities by gender and unprecedented changes in girls’ achievement and educational participation. This has led some to change the rhetoric from a concern over how girls are disadvantaged in schools to a focus on boys’ underachievement. ¹ However, while girls have made remarkable progress in several areas, significant disparities in some educational and occupational outcomes continue to persist. Moreover, schools still expose young people to rigid conceptions of masculinity and femininity that serve to perpetuate traditional gender norms.