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"Brains before "Beauty"?" High Achieving Girls, School and Gender Identities
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Skelton, Christine; Francis, Becky; Read, Barbara – Educational Studies, 2010
In recent years educational policy on gender and achievement has concentrated on boys' underachievement, frequently comparing it with the academic success of girls. This has encouraged a perception of girls as the "winners" of the educational stakes and assumes that they no longer experience the kinds of gender inequalities identified in…
Descriptors: Females, Sex Role, Sexual Identity, Early Adolescents