Just 30% of male school-leavers applied to university for autumn 2012, compared to 40% of female school-leavers, according to Ucas.
Female school teachers have been reprimanded for wearing short-sleeved blouses.
Female high school grads work as cashiers, waitresses, retail salespeople and secretaries.
Department for Education and Skills figures show that in the UK in 2001 there were 27, 400 male and 141, 000 female primary school teachers.
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That daunting statistic is one of the reasons Nadine Katz, senior associate dean, professor and director of medical education in the department of obstetrics, gynecology and women's health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in New York City, got interested in helping aspiring female med school professors achieve their goals.
At one of them, East Bridgwater community school, two rusting shipping containers have been used to expand school facilities, with reports that 14 toilets just serve 600 female pupils at another school, Haygrove.
Good lord, if I had only known about your last segment about not enough male teachers, as volunteer art and music teacher myself and as a person who knows what it can be like picked on by female teachers in elementary school, a person with a rare autism.
Only a decade ago a group of female employees wrote to female students at Harvard Business School advising them to avoid Wall Street, as they would be discriminated against.
But a question remains: Have you thought about how being female will impact your B-school experience?
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Only 34% of med school faculty members are female, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).
Kagan, 50, has achieved a number of firsts in her career: She is the first woman dean of Harvard Law School and the first female U.S. Solicitor General.
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The newspaper published an article Thursday citing documents from Harvard's library that show its law school reported a Native American female professor in federal statistics in 1992, when Ms. Warren was a visiting professor.
Al-Ghnaimi said one of her female cousins who studies at the Khan Younis school defies the edict by not wearing a robe, though she does cover her hair with a scarf.
Dr. Leah Millheiser, director of the Female Sexual Medicine Program at the Stanford University School of Medicine, has been conducting studies looking at the MRI images of women with extremely low libido.
The new atlas's Girls not at Primary School cartogram graphically illustrates the lack of female education in many parts of the developing world.
Whitney Kropp, a self-described outcast with just a handful of close friends at Ogemaw Heights High School, was picked to be the female representative of the sophomore class royalty.
After all, it was only in 1972 that America passed the Title IX law, making it a requirement for male and female athletes to receive equal treatment at the high school and collegiate level.
At a recent gathering of students in the national medical school, King Abdul Aziz University, female students, several who were bare-headed, took pains to explain that the gender-segregated classes did not create problems for them.
Peter Cadwallader, prosecuting, told the jury Mr Brewer acted improperly towards the two other female pupils, years after the alleged victim left the school.
Moreover, in order to facilitate the school-to-work transition of young female graduates there is an urgent need to mainstream this issue in the national development strategy on building the capacity of human capital in the country, and to integrate it in all plans of action and social and economic policies on youth empowerment.
Other cover stories examined the lives of the first eight women to enter Harvard Business School (1994) and the growing number of female entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley (1996).
Plus, in high school he received the Meritorious Distinction for Senior Thesis: Female Empowerment as a result of Microfinance Institutions in Third-World Nations.
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At school, I was a bit of an anomaly, a female athlete in an academic setting.
Female teachers can reduce some of the major risks adolescent girls face in school.
Young, female teachers are also an important factor in attracting and keeping girls in school.
Brian worked at a school where his dog, Powder, found a young adult female buried in the rubble three to four days.
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In 2008, several school employees expressed concerns about the relationship between Leat and a female pupil, which included physical contact such as hugging and tickling.
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Gender equality in education is a major global concern, but despite commitments to international gender goals, the majority of out-of-school children, and two-thirds of illiterate adults are female.
During the trial, Peter Cadwallader, prosecuting, said Mr Brewer had also acted in an improper way towards two other female pupils - years after the alleged victim in the case left the school.
The dean at the Yale School of Management, Sharon Oster, one of only five female deans at Forbes' top 40 schools, includes a sense of humor as one of the qualities essential for leadership.
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