The Institute of Pysics, IOP, has
indicated that girls in England are much more likely to study A-levels physics
if they are in a girls' school. Further researches from the national pupil
database show that 49% of state co-educational schools in the UK did not send
any girls to study physics at A-level in 2011.
Girls have twice the possibilities of accessing those
studies if they come from a girls' school, but this difference of opportunities
doesn´t take place in all subjects, not even in all science subjects.
Does this mean physics has been stereotyped as a boys'
subject in many mixed english schools?
It is said that physics is the studies which open more
doors in the scientific area, it offers higher education and career
opportunities, therefore, offers a higher status and quality life. Researches
clearly show that schools are keeping the doors firmly shut to girls, in other
words, many girls in England are not given the education and opportunities they
should.
What do you think about the fact that the government knows about this and ignore it?
How do you feel when you know that discrimination is still taking place nowadays?
Juliet Pietrocola Ardevol.
This doesn't surprise me at all. We all know that sex discrimination at the UK and at the whole world, has made a great improvement, but it's not enough, and specially when you see problems like this.
ReplyDeletePeople can say that it's a great coincidence, but I'm not keen of that theory... It's totally impossible. As Juliet has said, physics is the study that offers higher status and quality life; and in the older times, the people which had the higher status were men, so are there people that don't want to change this tradition?
As a woman, I feel quite disappointed, to see that sex discrimantion is still taking place nowadays, I constantly defend the idea that men and women have to be equal, and I'm totally against to this people who think that men are better with no apparent reason, and therefore they give them much more facilities to enter in certain degrees, such as physics.
What's more, I can't even believe the fact that the government is aware of all of this, but does nothing to change it, is that a democracy? Is that the people that are supposed to do the best for our community? If it is , it doesn't seem like. And this can clearly be a sympton of government corruption, but nobody changes it.
As a conlucion, I would like to say, that if it was on my hand, I would move cities and cities to change this, to make an equal world, and to give the same opportunities to everybody, no matter what; as it should be.
Carlota Besalduch.