In fact, the "gender gap" favoured the Democrats even more, since women cast 53% of votes.
In most countries the gender gap favoured girls in reading, while in science there was little difference.
As the Standard points out, the new YouGov also shows "a clear gender gap for Labour" of six points and almost the exact reverse for the Conservatives - a seven point gap favouring men.
Quantile regression results additionally suggest that the widening gender numeracy test score gap favouring male students may have been driven by top performing students.
Finally, including students' pre-school cognitive ability is found to increase the gender numeracy test score gap favouring male students in terms of magnitude and statistical significance.
In particular, the results from quantile regressions indicate that controlling for pre-school cognitive skills closes down the gender gap favouring females in reading, while increasing the gender gap favouring males in numeracy, and this pattern holds at all points of the test score distribution.
It is interesting to observe that while the test score gap favouring females (i.e. in reading) is mostly due to differences in pre-school cognitive skills, the test score gap favouring males (i.e. in numeracy) is mainly due to differences in returns (i.e. the unexplained part).
The significant female advantage in pre-school cognitive skills suggests the test score gap favouring females is usually due to differences in pre-school cognitive skills; however, the test score gap favouring males is largely due to differences in returns, which remains unanswered in this study, consistent with previous studies (Sohn 2012; Golsteyn and Schils 2014).
Also it is noted that controlling for pre-school cognitive skills reduces the gender reading test score gap favouring female students in terms of the magnitude and statistical significance in nearly all percentiles.
Furthermore, the steeper slope of the gender test score gap line at the higher end of the distribution (more visible for grades 5 and 7) suggests that the observed widening gender numeracy test score gap favouring male students may have been driven by top performing students.
