Cornelius Riordan, a professor at a woman’s catholic school, once said, “Females especially do better academically in single-sex schools and colleges, across a variety of cultures. On the basis of research, it appears that single-sex schools for females provide a greater opportunity for educational attainment as measured by standardized cognitive tests, curriculum and course placement, leadership behaviour, number of years of formal education and occupational achievement.”
Even though single gender education has been around for many decades and generations, recently, it has been used to allow students to achieve more by relieving them of the social pressures that they would have to encounter in a co-ed classroom which allows the students to pursue non-traditional career paths and set higher goals for their future.
Letting students take part in single gender education allows them to be free of all stereotypes and social pressures. By relieving social pressures, the environment allows the student to be themselves. What interests them becomes their new talents and hobbies, since they no longer have the other gender to try to impress on a daily basis. Single gender classrooms and campuses create better environments for the students to want to be a part of and helps them figure out who they truly are which can help the students decide what career path they want to pursue and boost their self-confidence towards the professional world.
Due to promoted self-confidence, students under a single gender education will find more time to think about what they want to do for a career, based on what they enjoy doing, compared to what career will pay the most that and they have little to no interest in. Students learn to step out of their comfort zone and achieve what they believe is right for them. Wanting a career that they want to enjoy doing for the rest of their lives makes the students set higher goals for themselves that they will stop at nothing to achieve.
Everyone has long-term and short-term goals that they want to reach, but without proper motivation, the goals are rarely met. Students that are in single gender classrooms find their motivation through their teachers and their friends since there is a higher chance that they have experienced the same situation or held the same goal. Similarities between the students allow them to strive farther with the support of their classmates, which makes the students want to set higher goals for their future that are easily attained with the experience and support from others and from within themselves.
Through single gender education, students are allowed to be themselves which helps them determine a career path that suits them better in the long run compared to a path that would not interest the students as much. Goals are set higher, and those goals help the students become better role models in society and throughout modern culture. Single gender education has helped many women throughout time achieve great lengths to become the leaders that they are today.
