Girls avoiding 'hard' subjects

By Emma Macdonald
Updated April 18 2018 - 10:27pm, first published May 2 2012 - 3:00am

Science and maths face some of the most entrenched gender divisions of any senior secondary school subjects across Australia, with girls refusing to take up the ''hard'' subjects such as physics and advanced maths in favour of softer courses such as psychology and biology.

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