YES - Alice Sullivan, research and teaching fellow, Institute for Education
It does throw up some difficult questions. The National Child Development Study traces the development of 15,000 people, now in their fifties, who were born in a single week in 1958. I am looking at how these people were affected by going to single-sex schools. Girls who went to a single-sex school did better in their O-Levels but there was no difference for boys.
People who went to single-sex schools were less likely to choose gender-specific subjects, girls were more likely to do science and maths whereas boys were more likely to do languages. We found women who had been to single-sex schools had higher wages. But men are more likely to get divorced.
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