Education has been a major factor in everything for as long as I've known. It's definitely something that everyone needs to have in order to be successful in any sort of way. So to hear that I may have been put at a disadvantage because of gender bias in the classroom upsets me in a way. I mean not to an extent where I think that every single thing I have ever learned was made so a woman could understand it, but just in the way that maybe something I didn't understand could have been better explained but due to gender bias the ability to learn a certain subject to my complete potential was kept from me. But I think that the differences of the male and female brain alone can impair someone's ability to learn, in fact the most important reason as to why people don't as much as they can so I think the best way to avoid bias is single sex classrooms.
According to Dr. Sax, author of the book Why Gender Matters: what parents and teachers need to know about the emergence of sex......
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