The plaintiffs argued that the test was discriminating against girls competing for the award because girls tend to score lower on the SAT and therefore acquire fewer scholarships than boys competing for the award who had higher SAT scores. The State Merit Scholarship Award is based on high school achievement and put girls at a better chance for the award since they tended to have greater high school grades than boys. Although girls had greater high school achievement, the use of the SAT scores as the solitary basis for the award failed to provide an impartial opportunity to both girls and boys. Since the SAT is used to forecast future outcome in college, the court agreed and ruled New York could no longer use the SAT scores alone as a basis for these scholarship awards. Gender differences between men and women are shown early on at the beginning of their childhood.
Males tend to out perform girls in the areas of math and science.
While in contrast young females learn to exhibit themselves verbally, and are encouraged to play with dolls teaching them nurturing activities. Reasons why men outperform females on spatial abilities might have to do with cognitive functioning differences between the two sexes. Studies have shown that there are differences in size between male and female brains. When completing tasks women use both sides of their brain while men use only use the left side of their brain. Although males outperform females in spatial task abilities, females outperform males in linguistic tasks. .