Do More Females Go onto Post-Secondary Schooling Than Males?

Do more females go onto post-secondary education after high school than males?

This paper will indicate whether more females go onto post-secondary education than males. At Hants North Rural High for the year of 2004, 16 males and 32 females were awarded diplomas. 8 out of 16 males and 16 out of 32 females went on to post-secondary schools. 16 females, that's twice the number of males that went onto post-secondary education. In 2005 40 males and 19 females were awarded diplomas. 14 males and 13 females went onto post-secondary education. In conclusion from 2004-2005, 22 out of 56 males (39%) went onto post-secondary education. 29 out of 51 females (57%) went onto post-secondary education indicating that during this time period at Hants North Rural High that more females went onto post-secondary education.

Many say that the only reason why fewer males go to post-secondary school is that they are not smart enough to do so. Girls have always been higher achievers, because they do mature more quickly than boys physically. Also, it must be said that girls engage in process-oriented thinking, while boys engage in goal-oriented thinking. Both thought processes complement each other. Perhaps most telling, however, is how the genders are raised during childhood. Males are raised to be independent thinkers, while females are raised to be thinks capable of arriving at a decision that's good for a group, rather than an individual. They say, "Educate a man, and you educate an individual. Educate a woman and you educate a nation." This also could be caused by the huge surge of Testosterone that boys experience in their teens, which some say decreases the ability to concentrate.