Sex discrimination in UK when sending students on to studying A-Level physics?

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. 

Does this mean society hasn't defeated sex discrimination yet?
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.