{"id":2204,"date":"2012-10-03T14:53:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T13:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2012-10-03T14:53:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T13:53:02","slug":"girls-not-taking-up-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/10\/03\/girls-not-taking-up-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls not taking up physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/media\/inline\/women-tenured-science-professors_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" \/> <em>Image: ISTOCKPHOTO\/CIMMERIAN<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<p>Girls are under represented in physics post-16, despite about equal success between genders in GCSE physics and science. For the last 20 years, only 20% of physics A-level students have been girls. Have a look at the recent numbers below..<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2012\/10\/students-1.png\" alt=\"student numbers\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Taken from <em>Trends in physics education<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Straight from the IOP report  <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/PUmAET\" title=\"report\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s Different for Girls: The influence of schools<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>49% of maintained co-ed schools sent no girls on to take A-level physics in 2011. The figure for all secondary schools is 46%<\/li>\n<li>Girls were almost two and a half times more likely to go on to do A-level physics if they came from a girls\u2019 school rather than a co-ed school (for all types of maintained schools in England)<\/li>\n<li>Twice the percentage of girls who went on to do A-level physics came from a school with a sixth form, compared to schools that only teach up to age 16 (for co-ed maintained schools in England)<\/li>\n<li>For maintained schools in England, the positive effect of single-sex education on girls\u2019 choice of physics post-16 is not replicated in the other sciences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>Physics is a subject that opens doors to exciting higher education and career opportunities.  This research shows that half of England\u2019s co-ed comprehensives are keeping these doors firmly shut to girls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Professor Sir Peter Knight, President of IOP<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iop.org\/news\/12\/oct\/page_58519.html\" title=\"IOP\" target=\"_blank\">Girls are being left behind <\/a>(IOP News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: ISTOCKPHOTO\/CIMMERIAN Girls are under represented in physics post-16, despite about equal success between genders in GCSE physics and science. For the last 20 years, only 20% of physics A-level students have been girls. Have a look at the recent numbers below.. Taken from Trends in physics education Straight from the IOP report It&#8217;s Different &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/10\/03\/girls-not-taking-up-physics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Girls not taking up physics<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}