Looking back at the results since GCSEs were introduced in 1989,using data from the Centre for Education and Employment Research CEERR), it's quite striking just how wide the gap has remained over that time.
But, though Mr Chirac now "senses" he will win a second term, neither man can be at all certain: the gap has remained stubbornly within any sensible pollster's margin of error.One reason is that their programmes are so similar.
Nonetheless, as stated earlier, this mortality gap has remained stubbornly unchanged [ 10], and may even have increased over time [ 5, 11], despite developments in mental health services and the introduction of better tolerated antipsychotic agents.
The gender gap has remained between 7 per cent and 12 per cent for several months.
The gender wage gap has remained roughly flat since the mid-1990s in many other rich countries, including Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
The gender gap has remained similar to previous years: Girls outperformed boys when it came to the proportion receiving A* and As but boys continue to get more A* grades than girls do.
For decades the gender pay gap has remained stubbornly persistent, and I hope that women now feel liberated to use the legislation to improve their pay and other conditions at work – regardless of their sector, industry or workplace.
Media experts noted that while Al Jazeera had been breaking new ground since it was founded in 1996 with a staff led by young veterans of the BBC, a big gap has remained between the news produced by it and a few other Arab satellite channels and the far less aggressive fare on the state-run networks watched by most of the region's poor.
Previous studies suggest that theory-practice gap has remained to be a formidable task and a challenge to the nursing profession.
The black-white wealth gap has remained stubbornly wide, at approximately 10 to 1, over the past 30 years.
