ABSTRACT
Advocates of the segregation of the sexes for education at the secondary stage have sometimes claimed that educating the two sexes together turns the boys into 'cissies'. This chapter focuses on the physical activities like playing football, cricket, gymnastics and athletics. In all four physical activities the men from the mixed secondary grammar schools had the better attitude, and the difference between the boys' school and the co-educated group is statistically significant in three out of the four activities—only in the case of cricket does it fail to rise to this level, though the difference lies consistently in the same direction. For boys' schools also the difference between gymnastics and cricket would be highly unlikely to have occurred by chance, and that between gymnastics and athletics, though not as large, would occur by chance much less than 1 in 20 times.
