ABSTRACT
Sex bias in education is international. In any country of the world we can find some differentiation of schooling and higher education according to the sex of the learner. In developing countries, both sexes are disadvantaged as compared with their counterparts in developed countries, but the greater disadvantage of females is obvious and striking. The situation in medicine is particularly interesting since, until recently, there was in British universities a kind of quota system for admission of women students in Medicine; only recently has this been abolished and places awarded on qualifications without regard to gender. In the British systems, pupils in secondary schools can drop certain subjects which they dislike or which they feel are of no particular value to them. One must indeed recognise the possible importance of a compulsory common curriculum with regard to the learning of foreign languages as well as maths and science.
