Education - Gender
- Created by: Jeana Stephens
- Created on: 11-04-22 19:01
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- Education - Gender
- External
- Feminsim
- Female employment
- Equal education opportunity
- Sue Sharpe's 'ambitions' - between 1970s and 1990s priorities changed from marriage/family to career
- Family Changes - Women taking breadwinner roles
- Feminsim
- Internal
- Coursework - Girls more organised & do more work outside of school
- Policy
- Role models - feminisation of teaching means less male teachers
- Stereotypes in material
- Boys
- Male peer groups see working hard as unmasculine
- Subcultures put emphasis on 'ladishness'
- Literacy - more likely to read to girls than boys
- Decline of jobs - less manufacturing/factory jobs
- Feminisation of education
- Willis Anti-school subculture study sees W.C. boys as seeking the declining manual jobs
- Subject Choice
- Socialisation encourages girls to be more passive by studying, and boys to focus on letting off steam
- Subject image
- Gendered careers - boys manual & girls secretarial
- Verbal abuse - boys who study hard called 'gay'
- External
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