Grasgreen: A Literature Review

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In the thesis of Grasgreen (found in the work Machin, 2005) he mentioned that the greater average girls are getting in behavioral and social skills compared to boys is one factor why girls are more likely to earn a degree. Also, the present result shows that, since graduation from elementary school days, girls dominated boys in overall academic performance and the within- school gender difference was larger during the middle school days than it was in primary school. The researchers also discovered that in the present data set, that the girls in general received more parental care and supervisions and have more cooperative attitudes or characters toward schooling, and exert more time and effort in their studying rather than boys.

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