Busy Boys and Little Ladies. How
fake brain science has supported gender segregation in schools. By Lise Eliot
(Slate, 4.12.2014)
End Gender Segregation in Schools. By Silke Tober and
Thomas Kunze (FR 21.08.2014)
Mandatory single-sex instruction: A violation of civil rights!
By Thomas Kunze and Silke Tober (FR 18.06.2013)
Failing Our Kids: Despite pseudoscience to the contrary, sex segregation in public schools creates problems—not solutions. By Susan McGee Bailey (Ms. Magazine Fall 2013)
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX), 20 U.S.C. 1681
“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
Article 3 of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany
(2) Men and women shall have equal rights. The state shall promote the actual implementation of equal rights for women and men and take steps to eliminate disadvantages that now exist.
On 1 December 2014, U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights published a clarification of requirements for offering single-sex classes in K-12 schools. It is written in Q&A form and thus easily accessible. The clarification in short: