All-girls’ advantage

WOMEN who attended girls’ schools are best placed to challenge sexual harassment because they have not experienced it in the classroom, a top head says.

Principal Charlotte Avery, of Cambridge’s St Mary’s School, said single-sex schools helped girls develop the confidence to stand up for themselves.

“There isn’t any sense of it being normalised, because they don’t see it – because it is simply not there,” she said.

“They have the confidence to be able to call it out, because it is something that is different to them.”