Academics have put forward an unusual theory about the gender divide in physics. It is a new take on the arc of learning.
The gender gap in physics, where girls are traditionally left behind, may be the result, not of brain structure, but of boys’ fondness for urinating at targets.
In the UK, only one in five of pupils who studies A-level physics is a girl. Australian academics have now explored the gender divide.Anna Wilson, adjunct associate professor at the Australian National University and colleagues put forward their theory in the Times Education Supplement.
