There is a need for reconciling the feminine and masculine worldviews so that more girls are drawn to science and technology courses. For this, both science and education need to seen as social constructs. Also, the instructional strategies of cooperative and collaborative learning require to be adopted in science education at the school level itself to make it gender inclusive.

Unfortunately, the present and dominant view of science is seeing human beings separate from nature as individual autonomous subjects and this discourse corresponds with the masculine world view. Also the dominant masculine system of ethics of rules orientation, rights-based activities and individualism or the ethics of justice much change to the ethics of care concern and collectivity.

According to Aikenhead, there are four views and hence divisions in the worlds of work and education in science as summarized below.

Four standpoints in viewing science

View 1:  Girls are an intellectual resource for science

  Assumption:  Cognitively boys and girls equal potentials

 View 2:   Girls need science

 Assumption:  Equality of opportunities for boys a