According to a research led by Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre titled "Culture, migration and educational performance: a focus on gender outcomes using Australian PISA tests," gender stereotypes and cultural norms of a child's family heritage have significant impacts on academic performance of students in Australian schools.The research analysed 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) test scores of non-migrant, first-generation and second-generation migrant children in Australia. Girls performed worse if their family came from a country where girls had lower access to secondary education than boys; the effect was even stronger for boys whose families came from countries with lower male school enrollment rates. The authors suggest that gender gap in maths and science tends to disappear in countries with greater gender equality.
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