Reply #65: Single sex schools seem to help alleviate this.

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Apparently, the pressure of having boys around exacerbates female aggression. (Proven in both human studies and in primate studies.)

Also, keeping the social communities fluid, by forcing the breakup of cliques (i.e. using the Colorado College model of education, where students take 3 week or 6 week intensive courses in one subject, then change to another subject; or the English model where students are in class 3 classes a day, two or three times a week, broken into trimesters); it disrupts the dominance patterns when the structure is changed regularly.

In some ways, such aggression is hard-wired and until women and girls realize that competing with each other is damaging to all of us, it's going to remain.

The fourth factor, however, the one just hitting the journals now, is that girls who are aggressors tend to have fractured relationships with their own mothers and difficult relationships with their fathers. So we can't control for that.