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Girls feel that they have something to prove, both in school and in the workplace, a TV presenter claims. Konnie Huq, best known for her stint on children's programme Blue Peter, says that expectations put on women in the workplace are high. This is because women are perceived as being more conscientious than their male counterparts, Huq claims. She comments: 'It's a relatively new phenomenon that we have equality and so women often have to live up to that.' Only a couple of generations ago women were not present in the workplace and there was no equality, Huq adds. A study carried out by the University of Virginia and Washington State University found that British women say they have to work harder than men to gain recognition in the workplace. Girls have also been found to consistently out-perform boys at GCSE, with 66.4 per cent achieving five or more A*-C grades, compared with 57.7 per cent of boys.