GENDER DIFFERENCES IN THE CHOICE OF ADVAN CED AND BASIC COURSES IN SENIOR HIGH-SCHOOL

The study presented is based on statistics provided by the Laender Min istries of Education regarding curricular options of senior high schoo l students in choosing advanced and basic courses. In addition, inform ation gained from an international survey on students' opinions concer ning, among other things, the quality of the advanced courses they had taken is utilized for a broader interpretation of the observed gender differences in curricular options. The concluding discussion focusses on the contrast between gender-specific curricular options and the pr ocess of an equalization of male and female formal educational careers that has been observed during the last three decades.