Aotearoa / New Zealand

I've previously read about studies where girls are more likely to be helped by teachers, where boys are more likely to be told "I know you can do it, go and try again". I was reading this in a book arguing the girls were disadvantaged by this bias because boys got to learn better this way where girls basically got told the answer. This study was in younger primary aged kids.

But if we know this happens, what if this becomes a disadvantage in later study? When the work becomes too hard to work out on your own, but the teacher sends you away anyway?

Alternatively, I know many people who trained as teachers but didn't stay because of the politics and general working environment (outside of the kids). What if the teachers who stay are the jaded ones that just don't care anymore?