BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Girls’ school women ‘earn more’

Women in their 40s who went to single-sex schools subsequently had higher incomes than those in mixed classes, a long-term study shows. Researchers at London University’s Institute of Education are tracking almost 13,000 people born in 1958. They said boys and girls in single-sex schools were less likely to have studied “gender stereotyped” subjects.

Phew, lucky I changed schools in the second year of high school to an all girls’ school. But isn’t it nice to know that the reason they earn more is because they were less likely to take up “female” occupations, which are paid less than technical or “male” jobs…

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