PT Journal AU DOSTAL, P SLOVAK, S STEPANEK, R SVRCINOVA, V TI GENDER DIFFERENCES OF PUPILS' KNOWLEDGE IN SELECTED FIELDS OF TECHNOLOGY SO Journal of Technology and Information Education PY 2021 BP 5 EP 15 VL 12 IS 2 DI 10.5507/jtie.2020.012 DE elementary school; gender; knowledge; research; technical education AB The article presents the results of a research probe dealing with gender differences in the level of secondary school pupils' knowledge in the Czech Republic in the field of selected technically oriented topics. Based on data obtained using didactic tests of the cognitive level with the size of a research sample of almost a thousand male or female pupils, we can state that a significantly higher level of knowledge was identified in secondary school male pupils in the field of hand tools. A significantly higher level of knowledge of female pupils of the same age was identified in the field of textile production. ER