The government's commissioner on social mobility has told a government committee that girls don't do Physics beyond GCSE because there’s a lot of hard maths in there that I think they would rather not do. The research generally … just says that’s a natural thing,
So, girls have some innate attribute that means they find Maths hard so they don't want to do it. And there's no research that backs that up, she's just made that bit up.
On a separate twitter post Ms Birbalsingh boasts that she doesn't know how big a number 83 million is. Ms Birbalsingh is a school headmistress.
How did we get here? What happened to the women's movement?
