Gender Gap in Examination Results and Beyond: Why?
Fri, 23 Sept
|Centennial Campus, HKU, 78 Pok Fu Lam Rd, Sai Wan, Hong Kong
September 23, 2016 @ 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Time & Location
23 Sept 2016, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Centennial Campus, HKU, 78 Pok Fu Lam Rd, Sai Wan, Hong Kong
About the Event
Centre for Comparative and Public Law Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong
A Joint CCPL-WSRC Evening Lecture
Gender Gap in Examination Results and Beyond: Why?
Professor Mindy Chen-Wishart Distinguished Cheng Yu Tung Visiting Professor,The University of Hong Kong; Professor of Contract Law, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, Fellow in Law (Merton College), Oxford University
Friday 23rd September 2016, 17:30 – 19:00 Small Moot Court, Room 723, 7/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong
While the gender gap in examination results are closing, this is not the case at Oxford and elsewhere, despite some improvements. Research shows that it is not because of: differential intelligence; differential mathematical ability; lowered efficiency of female selection at admissions; disadvantage for state school students; lower self-efficacy and confidence; anxiety; physical differences, or; pre-menstrual syndrome.