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claim: rather than promoting gender equality, single - gender classrooms create greater divides between boys and girls. evidence: answer menu - click to add. a study in the journal psychological bulletin found that, on average, single - gender schools do not provide students with a better education than mixed - gender schools. by creating single - gender schools, educators send the message that girls and boys learn in fundamentally different ways and should therefore be separated. juliet a. williams, author and gender studies professor at ucla, reports that \single - gender public school initiatives... reinforce damaging gender stereotypes.\

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The claim is about the negative impact of single - gender classrooms on gender equality. The evidence from the study in Psychological Bulletin shows no educational superiority of single - gender schools. The message sent by creating such schools about different learning styles of boys and girls and the reinforcement of gender stereotypes by single - gender public school initiatives support the claim that single - gender classrooms create greater divides.

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By creating single - gender schools, educators send the message that girls and boys learn in fundamentally different ways and should therefore be separated. Juliet A. Williams, author and gender studies professor at UCLA, reports that "single - [gender] public school initiatives... [reinforce] damaging gender stereotypes."