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Write an article on recent achievements and advancements in the field of education....

Answer 1

I am delighted to be able to talk to such a distinguished audience on International Women's Day, not least in these impressive surroundings. I'm particularly pleased that this seminar has been organised in partnership with the Fawcett Society. Millicent Fawcett, as you will know, played a major part in gaining votes for women and was a tireless campaigner to improve women's rights. The Fawcett Society continues to campaign for women and men to be treated as equal partners in today's society. So, what more appropriate organisation can there be to host a seminar on girls' achievement?

In my speech today, I will be celebrating the substantial achievements of girls in the classroom and women in the workplace over recent years. I plan to draw from Ofsted's inspection evidence and other educational research to highlight the differences in the academic achievement of girls and boys at school.

Answer 2

am delighted to be able to talk to such a distinguished audience on International Women's Day, not least in these impressive surroundings. I'm particularly pleased that this seminar has been organised in partnership with the Fawcett Society. Millicent Fawcett, as you will know, played a major part in gaining votes for women and was a tireless campaigner to improve women's rights. The Fawcett Society continues to campaign for women and men to be treated as equal partners in today's society. So, what more appropriate organisation can there be to host a seminar on girls' achievement?

In my speech today, I will be celebrating the substantial achievements of girls in the classroom and women in the workplace over recent years. I plan to draw from Ofsted's inspection evidence and other educational research to highlight the differences in the academic achievement of girls and boys at school.

It is a fact that girls do better than boys academically but that the success girls enjoy at school is all too often not mirrored later in life. In my speech this morning, I intend to look in more detail at this issue and make some proposals that aim to equip girls with the life-skills and self-confidence to fulfil their future potential in the workplace.

I will also highlight a number of issues associated with underachieving girls and the challenges that must be tackled if we are to ease the cycle of poverty and deprivation that young women face if they drop out of the education system.

Impressive achievements

Before I discuss these issues in more detail, I would like to spend a few moments, on International Women's Day, celebrating the considerable academic achievements of girls and young women in this country:

· girls make significantly more progress at school, with more girls than boys achieving five grades A-star to C at GCSE level

· girls outperform boys in advanced courses, with 44% of girls gaining the top A/B grades compared with 41% of boys

· more girls than boys enrol onto university-level courses; recent statistics show 53% of first class degrees were awarded to women and 48% of women gained an upper second degree compared with 40% of men.

It is encouraging that women increasingly take their rightful place in national and international politics, in business, the professions, organisational leadership and sport. For example, here in the Palace of Westminster we have the greatest number of female MPs ever, including, of course, Helen Jackson MP who is chairing today's event.

Twenty years ago, only 5% of MPs were women, compared with 18% today, and women make up 24% of the current Cabinet. In wider society too, almost a third of secondary headteachers and almost a quarter of the civil service top management are now women. In neither case is it half, but it is slowly improving.

Behind the headlines

So, the statistics appear to show that girls are doing very well and that boys are the problem. But despite the early head-start that girls appear to have in the race of life, they do not seem to gain the golden prizes at the finishing line in terms of careers and salaries.

For the girls gaining the magic threshold of five "good" GCSEs, one might expect them to start their careers looking forward to a future full of pay, power and progress. Yet for many of these young women, their academic achievements do not translate into similar advantages in pay levels or status in later life.

Despite the Equal Pay Act, "equal pay for work of equal value", and the Sex Discrimination Act, there are still wide pay differences between the sexes. In 1999, women working full-time earned 82% of the average hourly pay of men, and that dropped to 60% for part-time working. Women earn, on average only 63% of male earnings. Overall, women continue to earn considerably less than men even with good qualifications. For example, male graduates earn 44% more than female graduates by the time they reach their 50s.

Whilst the issue of workplace equality is obviously far removed from Ofsted's remit within the education sector, I firmly believe that we must address some of the underlying issues in order to tackle future employment and career inequalities. I therefore intend to recommend to you today a number of proposals aimed at helping society shatter the "glass ceiling" of the workplaces of tomorrow by removing the "perspex panel" of peer pressure today.

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