I welcomed your editorial highlighting the complexities around gender gaps in education (25 March). While I agree that it is important to acknowledge these gaps, dividing results strictly by gender without exploring wider intersecting factors, such as socioeconomic status, only provides a partial picture.
If we frame girls outperforming boys as a crisis, we are sending a message that women being outperformed is OK, natural even. We need to have this discussion by observing education as a whole and using the differences to explore the root cause.
