Leadership
In a single-sex school, young women fill all leadership positions—breaking through traditional stereotypical roles.*
Confidence
Females participate 2 ½ times more often when there are no males in the classroom with them.*
Self-Esteem
The socialization of young women in single-sex schools is equal to that of their coed peers. Studies, however, indicate that females in single-sex schools have greater self-esteem.*
Career Goals
Young women from single-sex schools have higher career goals, more Ph.D. degrees and more jobs in Fortune Five-Hundred companies than their counterparts in coed schools.*
Study Habits
Young women in single-sex schools watch less TV, do more homework, have better study habits, fewer discipline problems and more positive attitudes toward education than their coed peers.*
Advanced Level
By the end of the student’s junior year, young women in single-sex schools surpass their peers in coed schools in reading, writing and science.*
*References: Lee and Bryk, “Harvard Report”; Schneider and Courts, Journal of Educational Psychology: The American Association of University Women, “Shortchanging Girls, Shortchanging America”; The Association of American Colleges, “The Classroom Climate: A Chilly One for Women.”