Educational sexism in Queensland

Obvious points are:

·         Number of males is far fewer than number of females, many males have dropped out of the Tertiary relevant subjects.

·         Males beat females by 20.61% to 14.0% for A’s and by 52.11% to 43.0% in the combined A/B. Over all the students 47% were ranked as A and B combined.

·         The male data is skewed upwards, the female downwards.

·         Even allowing for the strong possibility that many of the ‘drop out’ males would have scored poorly on the CST there is no doubting the fact that for those students who took the CST and hence received an OP the males outperformed the females by a very substantial margin.

The crucial Overall Position OP results also for 2012 were:

An inspection of the two data sets is illuminating. 20.61% of the males got an A on the QCST; looking down the OP results for males, we note that to reach 20.61% we have to go down to between OP 5 and OP 6; whereas the only14.0% of females got an A on CST and looking down the OP results for females we reach the 14% between OP 3 and OP 4. This indicates that females are getting a final result that is two OP rungs better than males of similar ability as measured by QCST.

Taking the cohorts that were awarded QCST results of A and B added (roughly the upper half), we find that the 52.11% of males occurs between OP 10 and OP 11, whereas for females their 43% occurs between OP8 and OP 9. Again the males are disadvantaged by two OP rungs compared to females of similar ability as indicated by the QCST.