There has been an increasing trend of females performing better than males academically across the mathematical engineering courses. To confirm this assumption, final marks of two independent samples of students from Calculus courses across all fields within Engineering at a local university of UAE are considered. A two-sample t-test indicates a significant difference in the performance between the two genders. Accordingly, a survey was designed to identify factors that may yield to this scenario. Analysis of the survey found that the time spend studying outside the classroom is a statistically significant factor contributing to the disparity between the gender performances. Based on these results, we propose immediate short-term solutions that can be applied by instructors to address this issue. This study advocates the need of continuous research at micro level to identify gender-based student performance variance. Such researches can assist in immediate intervention thereby leading to the bridging of such a gap.

翻译：已有日益增长的趋势表明，在数学工程类课程中，女性的学业表现优于男性。为验证这一假设，本研究选取阿联酋一所地方大学工程学院所有领域微积分课程中两个独立样本学生的期末成绩进行分析。双样本t检验显示，两性成绩存在显著差异。据此，我们设计了一项调查以识别可能导致该现象的因素。分析发现，课外学习时间是一个具有统计学显著性的因素，解释了性别间的成绩差异。基于这些结果，我们提出教师可立即采用的短期解决方案。本研究倡导在微观层面持续开展研究，以识别基于性别的学生表现差异。此类研究有助于及时干预，从而弥合此类差距。