Girls study harder than boys, says StatsCan

Sep 20, 2007 09:18 AM THE CANADIAN PRESS

In Ottawa, young women are much more likely to attend university than young men. New study has shown that huge gap between performance of their academic and their study habit at age of 15, and parents guidance. Statistic Canada said 26 percent of men of 19 years old had attended university in 2003. But, in other hand 39 percent of women attended university. The personalities and condition for study between woman and men had 77 percent gap. Men had lower average and reading skill than women. 11 percent gaps were shown by the statistic that young men spend less time on their homework than women and 9 percent gap was that men’s parent’s expectations toward boy’s academic performance. Studies have found that men and woman had different characteristic in age of 15. One of the shocking statistic is that only 32 percent of the young men’s average was over 80 percent, nonetheless, half of the women’s average was over 80 percent. The time consumed on their homework was different too. 30 percent of men spend 4 hours a week but 41 percent of women spend at least 4 hours a week for their homework. The motivation and preference were factors that were hard to measure.

Many statistics have proven that girls study harder than boys. We should agree with the statistics because it is the fundamental information about young men and young women. I accede that we should inspire more young man to study and motivate their academics. But, I strongly believe that student who study harder or intelligent is not based on a person’s gender. It is how hard they put effort on to their work. I agree that even though boys from Canada or US doesn’t study than girls. St Andrew’s College will make boys to true young men, therefore I feel that student at SAC study much harder than girl at any other schools.