仅招收女性的实行单性别教育的学校,多为高中或大学。单性别教育在二十世纪中叶前是主流,大部分中学、大学都是男校或女校。众多文化(如宗教原因)都主张单性别教育,而它在世上众多地方得到实行。最近,因教育研究的发展,越来越多人认识到男女在成长阶段的不同点,重新建立了大量男校、女校。女校教育理念基于“男、女学习方法有差异,所以需要根据性别将他们分开教育”,致力于培养优秀的、拥有高贵气质的女性。除与普通学校相同的文化课外,女校还会开设形体训练、朗诵、诗歌鉴赏、舞蹈、礼仪等提高现代社会女性整体素质的课程。
从女校毕业的女孩成为工程师的可能性是那些男女同校的女孩的三倍。
Girls who graduate from single-sex schools are three times more likely to become engineers than those who attend coeducational schools.
By the late 1970s, when I was there, pressure grew to relax these rules and it became the subject of debate among the faculty at St. Anne's College, which was one of these all-women's colleges.
七十年代后期,我在那里读书时,放宽规定的呼声日益高涨,并引起了其中一所女校,圣安妮大学的教职员,激烈的争论。
Some years ago, when I was a graduate student, I was at Oxford in England and they had men's and women's colleges. They weren't yet mixed and the women's colleges had rules against overnight male guests.
很多年前,我在英国牛津读研究生时,他们有男校和女校,当时还没有合并,而女校有禁止男客过夜的规定。
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