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"gender education is must in school"-pm. write an article on it.

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Girls thrive in single-sex schools, but boys do not. It is a common assumption and new research from London's Institute of Education (IoE) suggests, to a certain extent, that it is true. Assessing the biggest ever swath of historical data on the issue, researchers found that girls who go to girls' schools will later earn more than those from mixed schools - partly because they are less likely to make gendered decisions about their studies and are therefore more likely to take maths and science subjects. But the research also found social problems in boys-only schools. "Single-sex education seems to have a negative social impact for boys and a positive academic impact for girls," says Alice Sullivan, the IoE researcher behind the report.

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Parents had worked this out long before the research proved it: they want their daughters to go to girls' schools and their sons to go to mixed schools. In much of the country, there has been a 40-year drift towards mixed-sex education in which boys' schools have been replaced with co-educational schools far more readily than girls' schools have. In some areas of the country, this has created a quiet phenomenon in which girls are now outnumbered by boys in some mixed schools by three to one.

Overall, in the state sector, 13% of girls now go to girls' schools and 10% of boys attend boys' schools; within mixed schools, 51% are boys. But when you drill down into some inner-city areas, the gender balance is tipped. In outer London, 33% of girls attend girls' schools, and 24% of boys attend boys' schools. In co-educational schools, 53% of students are boys.

But in inner London, the majority of girls (52%) attend girls' schools, and just 27% of boys attend boys' schools. And 59% of students in mixed schools are boys.

Camden in north London now has four girls' secondary schools, and only one boys' school. In Hackney, east London, there are three girls' schools and only one for boys. One of the most extreme imbalances in the co-educational sector occurs in Islington, north London, where boys make up 71% of the mixed secondary school population.