Single-sex schooling does not improve academic performance and can lead to gender stereotyping

Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 15:31 in Psychology & Sociology

Social scientists have found that there is no well-designed research that demonstrates that single-sex schools improve student's academic performance. However, there is evidence that sex segregation increases gender stereotyping among children and teachers and legitimizes institutional sexism.

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