G: Girls; B: Boys. Interestingly, all of these practices are more positively associated with girls’ expectations of pursuing a career in science, especially when the questions are related to designing experiments and spending time in the laboratory'. For instance, the odds ratio of expecting to pursue a career in science is 21% higher among girls who reported that they spend time in the laboratory' doing practical experiments in all or most science lessons than among girls who reported that this happened less frequently; the increase among boys was only 11%. For instance, only 5% of girls see themselves as engineers, compared to 12% of boys, and only a handful of girls (less than 1%) expect to work as ICT professionals, compared to 5% of boys.