Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 17:55:18 PDT
Study: Girls get higher grades
By Traci Watson, USA Today
August 11, 1998
High-school girls outperform boys in school and expect to earn
just as much in careers in the millennium, according to a report out =
Tuesday. =
Girls spend more time on homework than boys (6.8 hours per week
vs. 5.4) and are far more likely to expect to attend a four-year college =
after finishing high school, said the report sponsored by the Horatio =
Alger Association, a group that helps young people. =
Forty-three percent of boys expect to earn $35,000 or more at
the start of their careers, compared with 39% of the girls, the study =
said. =
"Consistent with their hard work and better grades, female teens
now have income expectations no different from those of males," the =
report said. =
The report was based on a survey of 1,195 randomly chosen
students ages 14-18 who will spend most of their lives in the 21st =
century. =
Among the findings: =
=B7Sixty percent of girls said they "try to take the most difficult and =
challenging courses they can," compared with 44% of boys.
=B7One-third of girls said they "received mostly A's on their last report=
=
card." Fewer than one-fifth of boys said the same.
=B7Three-fourths of girls "believe they will have many opportunities =
available to them after they graduate." Two-thirds of the boys agreed.
=B7Eighty percent of girls said it is "personally important to them that =
they do their best in all of their classes," compared with 65% of boys. =
The report also found that minority students, on average, study =
more than whites. And white girls study more than white boys. =
Yet only 63% of minority teen-agers, compared with 72% of white =
kids, believe they will find many available opportunities after they =
graduate. =
The report's authors don't know why white boys are such =
lackadaisical students. =
"This may be because Caucasian males feel a sense of entitlement," said =
Jennifer Park, the group's educational analyst. Or it may be
because white boys participate in more extracurricular activities than =
other students.
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