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All-girls schools for 4th 5th and 6th graders have positive education benefits, but also tend to reinforce gender stereotypes, 

The absence of boys in the classroom actually causes girls to reinforce gender stereotypes on themselves and each other, says William Bukowski, one of the researchers in the girls-school study and psychology professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.

Rosalind Wiseman, author of "Queen Bees and Wannabes," said the results would be different if the study was done in the United States instead of Colombia.

"In cultures where gender and gender expectations are very stratified, expectations are also stratified and rigid," Wiseman told Time. "All-girls schools in the United States have done a lot to combat these expectations and stereotypes. They've undergone a tremendous transformation in the last 20 years in order to stay relevant and survive. They stopped being finishing schools and became this place of opportunity for female empowerment."

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