Advantages of girls schools

Unique education offers students a learning environment free from social pressures, stereotypes, and conventions. Thus both genders can more calmly exploit their strengths and relate to the academic spheres in a more uninhibited way, This model of school organization creates a school environment with a markedly more formative and educational tone.

Some of the advantages for girls are

More freedom

The single-gender environments challenge the gender culture that often surrounds mixed-school subjects, classifying them as “boys” or “girls.” In a single school, girls can experiment with more freedom, traditionally considered “male” disciplines, see what they are capable of, gain self-esteem and academic freedom. Moreover, girls learn and move in an alternative environment that reduces social and media obsession for aesthetics and body worship.

School dropouts

Countries such as the United States, Australia, Great Britain, Germany, Norway, and France have introduced specific experiences and specific education programs as a means to reduce school failure and improve academic achievement among boys.

The European Commission reaffirmed the target of dropping school attendance by less than 10 percent across the EU by 2020. In 2011, dropping out of schooling, a percentage of young people between the ages of 18 and 24 who did not complete compulsory secondary education, stood at 13.5% (11.6% for girls versus 15.3% for boys).

The data published by international organizations show that the sexual component is a determining factor in the numbers of school failure, which is increasing among boys, especially in countries such as Malta (38.9%), Spain (31%), Portugal, …