This paper examines gender differences in academic performance in Pakistani higher education. Its specific focus is to unpack the reasons for female students' outperformance and male students' underperformance in higher education in Pakistan. We have attempted to understand this gender reversal change in education performance from the viewpoint of university teachers. The study sample consisted of 253 university teachers who were teaching in the University of Punjab (the country's oldest and largest Public Sector University) in Pakistan. 253 regular teachers were sampled using proportionate random sampling technique. The data were collected using a well-structured questionnaire. The analysis was carried out with the help of AMOS, Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The study findings revealed that socio-economic and cultural factors had a significant positive impact on gender differentials in academic performance in terms of female students' outperformance and male students' underperformance by the mediation of educational determinants in higher education.
Shoaib et al. (Wed,) studied this question.