For persons aged 15 to 24 years, the gender difference is 18 per cent favouring males.

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Among the older pupils, boys are still narrowly ahead in science, but the gap is closing and among 9 year olds there is no gender difference.

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But, like Liberia's new president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the continent's first female elected as head of state, women are determined to make a gender difference in the way they do business.

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At the same time, failing to recognize gender difference within marriage and the family would be a "deceit" that would rock the foundations of society and lead to discrimination between children, he said.

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There is another unmistakable gender-defined difference within the Naga orders.

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The difference in age, as well as gender, contributes various perspectives and capabilities.

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You look for difference in terms of age, race, gender, sexuality, class, ability, ethnicity, etc.

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However, the women in the study connect significantly less than the men when outside the home, and the difference in location might be partly linked to gender-specific usage patterns.

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He suggested the gender differences may have evolved as part of a more general difference in stress responses between men and women.

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