Do you think secondary schools should keep genders seperate or mix them?

From a House of Commons report from 2023 on attitudes towards women and girls in educational settings: 6. In giving evidence to us, Soma Sara, Founder of Everyone’s Invited, an online forum where individuals can safely share their stories, gave us her view that sexual harassment and sexual violence had become normalised in society, and that this culture had leaked into our schools and colleges .[^(6)](https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmwomeq/331/report.html#footnote-142) Tender Education and Arts, a charity that works with young people and schools to prevent domestic abuse and sexual violence, explained that because sexual harassment was commonplace in schools—and often went unchallenged—it had a detrimental effect on girls’ and young women’s confidence.[^(7)](https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmwomeq/331/report.html#footnote-141) Susie McDonald, Chief Executive of Tender Education and Arts, observed that girls felt a “sense of defeat” and did “not feel able to do anything other than normalise and accept it \[sexual harassment\]”.[^(8)](https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmwomeq/331/report.html#footnote-140) Girls were more likely to make excuses for what had happened to them instead of holding boys and young men to account. For example, girls questioned the length of their skirts, the spaces they occupied, or who they were friends with.[^(9)](https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmwomeq/331/report.html#footnote-139) Jackie Doyle-Price, a Member of this Committee and the then Chair of our Sub-Committee, which led on this inquiry, told a Westminster Hall debate of her experience in speaking to 13 year old girls during a school visit. She asked the girls how many of them had been harassed: >