In the few years since girls were introduced into the primary school, Mr Heath said they had almost reached gender parity in that cohort. Israel has vowed to restart its war effort, launched in response to the Hamas killings of 1,200 Israelis on 7 October, after the initial goal of 50 out of 238 hostages are released.

The minister adds there were parts of the office that considered themselves "not to be accountable to me, or indeed anyone who was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster or Cabinet Office minister". I used to refer to parts of the Cabinet Office as the dark side of the moon, because they were obscured from my gaze," Mr Gove says. Women and girls have been at the forefront of climate activism and can offer unique knowledge and expertise—including among Indigenous, rural, and young populations—that can support effective climate action. And there had been "a tendency amongst successive prime ministers to shove into the Cabinet Office responsibilities that did not appear to fit conveniently elsewhere", such as drug policy and charity issues. If from infancy, boys are discouraged from playing with toys we might associate as feminine, then they may not develop a skill set that they might need later in life. If they are discouraged by their peers from playing with dolls, while at the same time they see their mother doing most of the childcare, what does that say about whose role it is to care? And so we enter the realm of "biological essentialism", where we ascribe an innate basis to a behaviour that is, when you delve a bit deeper, highly likely to be learned.Anthony Boys, principal of Marist Catholic College North Shore, also oversaw the introduction of girls to his previously all-boys high school in 2021, when it merged with St Mary's Catholic Primary School. He claimed at an earlier part of the inquiry that preparation for Brexit helped the UK prepare for the COVID crisis. Referring to students by their surnames, for example. Or, for instance, is there a safe and comfortable place for boys and for girls to sit and talk?" Mr Gove was minister at the Cabinet Office and chaired some 145 of the daily COVID-O operational meetings about the virus response across the government.

Mass testing - then not planned in the UK, although recommended by the World Health Organisation - she claimed was "unnecessary" in March 2020. For instance, when girls first enter pre-school – a gender gap in maths does not exist, but it later begins to widen as their teacher and self-expectations come into play. This is especially problematic because these reinforced gender stereotypes are "at odds with the contemporary gender egalitarian principle that your sex shouldn't determine your interests or future", says Fine. Within the government-run system, there are some brilliant single-sex schools that are still operating at capacity, doing really well and getting great results. Her father, Osama, said: “The Israeli soldiers shot her in the leg and arrested her, accusing her of carrying a knife, even though she was not.Fiji recognizes women and girls as agents of change and drivers of climate-resilient development. It has identified the specific functions that women have in different sectors, such as selling farm produce or fishing, as entry points for women to play an active part in the implementation of adaptation activities in these areas.