Just completing some Equality Act 'training' and apparently I got this question wrong...

Incidentally, how do you think girls perform better in exams, if not due to hard work?

Better teaching.

Of all the things it could be, I really don't think you can claim 'better teaching'. Most schools are mixed sex. The boys and girls get the same teaching.

You might be able to claim (though I'd want to see it backed up)

• school teaching system favours girls compliant quiet natures and disfavours active boys
• the exam timing system favours girls who mature earlier
• the curriculum favours girls in the choice of texts / topics to be studied
• parents are more supportive of girls' education
• teachers focus attention on girls in the classroom (very much doubt that one)

Ah, cross post. I see you think that girls don’t work harder than boys, but somehow have better teaching, despite most teaching being done in mixed classes.

Even more charming than usual, today, I see PlanDeRaccordement. Go well.

Yes, I complained about ours saying that and was told that while it technically wasn't correct it's the way most employers (mis)read it!

Surely this is a training need!

What a ridiculous thing to say. So when women make up 55% of university students and are given higher grades, it is due to “hard work” but when men are paid more than women, it is not due to “hard work”?

Are you suggesting that the women who worked hard at school, to the point where they performed better suddenly stop working hard when they move into the workplace?

Or are you suggesting that the men who worked less hard at school suddenly start working so much harder than the hardworking women that they deserve to be paid much better?

The question is poorly worded and also bad for not considering or specifying which metrics they mean.

One could also interpret it as asking if there is a biological or innate advantage related to sex (or gender, presumably they didn't specify which) rather than a societal one.

I wouldn't really know what such a vague question was asking. I need specifics!

Incidentally, how do you think girls perform better in exams, if not due to hard work?

Better teaching. Same reason why white people do better than black people. It’s not due to white people “working harder”.

Coming out with better results should advantage women, but it doesn't, as we see from the poorer pay we receive for the same roles.

There is no statistically significant pay gap between childless women and men in same roles. The pay gap is a motherhood penalty, not a woman penalty.

Advantage means advantage. As in who is coming out ahead.

I wouldn't take advantage to mean that.
I would take it to mean who gets a helping hand or a head start.

Do girls get a helping hand / headstart in education? Is it aimed towards them? Possibly in the days of continuous assessment, but now terminal exams are back? Don't girls tend to get less teacher attention than boys? Aren't they discouraged from taking 'boys' subjects?
Does the 'classroom based' system advantage girls? Perhaps?
At best it is a moot point, certainly not proven that girls actually have an advantage.

Whereas the very fact we need equal pay acts to ensure women doing the same job are paid the same (and tribunals still need to take place), surely shows that women are still disadvantaged in the workplace. Similarly lack of females at director level, women having to take time off more when children are ill etc.

Not really. The pay gap is due to motherhood, not education.

There is a significant sex pay gap in my workplace, where very few female academics actually have children.

It's a stupid question. The fact is that despite poorer academic performance, men are paid more than women.

Women statistically do have the advantage though. I think it’s sexist to be saying it is due to hard work, that is literally saying boys/young men are more likely to be lazy compared to girls/young women. When truth is that both sexes are equally lazy, or hard working.

So, despite the fact that girls and women outperform men academically, they get paid less in the workplace? I'd say that represents a pretty obvious problem that most people would recognise as a disadvantage.

Indeed - a double whammy - women and girls brighter(?) worker harder (?) know they have to put perform (?) - but still get paid less - a double whammy plus now it not seen as male advantage.

You couldn’t make this shit up.

What a ridiculous thing to say. So when women make up 55% of university students and are given higher grades, it is due to “hard work” but when men are paid more than women, it is not due to “hard work”?

Please. Advantage means advantage. As in who is coming out ahead. Women are statistically ahead of men in education. This is an advantage that women have today (didn’t in past but do today).

Exams have an objective measure, at least, which is not the case in with how people are rewarded in the workplace. Incidentally, how do you think girls perform better in exams, if not due to hard work? Coming out with better results should advantage women, but it doesn't, as we see from the poorer pay we receive for the same roles. So, it's not actually an advantage, more a barometer of how women are disadvantaged.

Email the training provider and you’ll look an idiot who doesn’t know basic skills for True/False statements.

Sounds like you have a pretty shit training provider, OP. Do you know who it is?

Please. Advantage means advantage. As in who is coming out ahead. Women are statistically ahead of men in education. This is an advantage that women have today (didn’t in past but do today).

Who is the provider of this training?

I would be fuming at this and tempted to email them if my job was safe.

They do have an advantage in education in that even if they under perform they’ll still be better paid later on.