{"id":619331,"date":"2026-09-09T13:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T13:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/619331\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T13:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T13:30:16","slug":"ireland-still-faces-stem-gender-gap-despite-strong-pisa-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/619331\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland Still Faces STEM Gender Gap Despite Strong PISA Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Wednesday, 9 September 2026 13:05\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/62062c31ecae7.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Ireland continues to be a leading performer in education internationally.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland still has a lot of catching up to do when it comes to the gender divide in STEM siubjects.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to the CEO of Midlands Science, following the latest PISA results, which confirmed that Ireland remains among the world\u2019s leading countries for educational outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland\u2019s performance in reading, mathematics and science remained above the EU and OECD averages despite scores in reading and mathematics being lower in PISA 2025 than in previous assessment cycles.<\/p>\n<p>The report also found boys outperformed girls in maths and problem-solving, while girls led in reading.<\/p>\n<p>Midlands Science CEO, Jackie Gorman says role models could play a huge role in this matter:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 9 September 2026 13:05 Ireland continues to be a leading performer in education internationally. Ireland still has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3279,319,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":["post-619331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}