Despite genuine efforts by parents and teachers to create a better environment for girls in the education system, barriers to learning persist and gender inequity continues to flourish.
Numerous studies show that teachers often treat boys and girls differently.
According to research, male students receive more of the teacher's attention and are given more time to talk in class from pre-school through college. Research has also found that student-teacher interaction in science classes is biased toward boys and that when students are grouped by ability in mathematics classes, boys are more likely to be assigned to the high ability group. In addition, girls are only half as likely to be called on in class by their teachers, and teachers ask boys more higher order questions than girls. This issue is not so much a problem with the teachers as it is with their training. They can't teach what they weren't taught.