Girls thrive in single-sex schools, but boys do not. It is a common assumption and new research from London’s Institute of Education (IoE) suggests, to a certain extent, that it is true. Researchers have found that girls who go to girls’ schools will later earn more than those from mixed schools — partly because they are less likely to make gendered decisions about their studies and are, therefore, more likely to take maths and science subjects.
Equality breeds attempt. A global study has found that people living in countries with high levels of equality between men and women enjoy the best sex, with the over-40s saying they are most satisfied. Middle-aged and older people who live in Western countries with more gender equality between men and women are most likely to report being satisfied with their sex lives, according to the study.
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/ 27 January 2006
Singletons in the United Kingdom complain of bias in the workplace with pressure to attend after-hours dos and work weekends, a survey revealed this week. Most single people are happy being single but many feel picked on at work, left out of couple-dominated social occasions and penalised financially.
Months before last year’s race riots in England and the international fallout of September 11, Britain’s Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) decided one of the first themes for its initiatives should be ”understanding and enriching multiculturalism”. Suddenly arts and humanities research, which politicians saw as marginal — a matter of some lone scholars sitting in libraries — is looking very relevant.