Single-sex schools are more likely to produce high-flying career girls

A study claims pupils educatied within an all-female environment are much more likely to take chances that their coed peers.

The new study conducted by economists at the University of Essex asked a series of questions designed to measure their appetite for risk, asking them to choose between a lottery and a sure bet. On average, girls were 16% less likely than boys to opt for the lottery. But significantly, they found that girls in coed schools were 36% less likely to select the lottery than their male peers. The findings appear to confirm the long-held view that males have a greater appetite for risk than females and go some way to indicating that this may be down to the environment in which a young person grows up. Girls at single-sex schools were also willing to invest more in a hypothetical risky investment than coed female and all-male pupils.

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