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Gender, Education and Skills:
The Persistence of Gender Gaps in Education and Skills

Our latest report presents fresh insights on progress towards gender equality in education, from proficiency in reading, mathematics and science through to career choices after leaving school. 

 
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Join us on 9 March our Q&A Webinar which will explore how schools can help students navigate and thrive in an interconnected world. For more information and to register please click on our link below! 

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This e-workshop invites teachers, students, policy makers and social partners to hear Student Voices from Ukraine and Japan share their understanding and experience of resilience in emergency contexts.

This e-workshop brings together developers, teachers, and students with the aim to raise awareness about the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) use in teaching and learning.

 
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Data Spotlight

Who is outperforming who in your classroom? In PISA 2018, girls outperformed boys in reading by almost 30 score points, on average across OECD countries. While girls outperformed boys in reading in every participating country and economy, the gap was much wider in some countries than in others. This can be observed below where girls show better performance than boys in all countries.

 

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Gender gap in reading performance, PISA 2018

Bar graph showing the difference in reading performance of students who read and those who rarely or never read books against the format of reading. Students that say they read more often in paper format performed on average 70 points higher in reading than those who reported that they rarely or never read books (around 50 points higher after accounting for students' and schools' socio-economic profile, and gender). Students that read books more often on digital devices scored around 20 points more than those that rarely or never read and those that read books equally often in paper format and on digital devices scored around 50 points higher than those that rarely or never read books.

OECD (2019), PISA 2018 Results (Volume II): Where All Students Can Succeed

 

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