gender differences in education
- Created by: kellyeastlou09
- Created on: 09-06-16 13:01
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- GENDER AND DIFFERENTIAL EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT
- KEY FACTS
- 1) Girls get better results at all levels
- 2) girls get bettwe results in most subjects at GCSE
- 3) girls are more likely to pass their A levels
- 4) women are more likley to go to university
- 5) men seem to have most success at the highest levels of university
- 6) gitls tend to go for communication based subjects like english and sociology. whereas boys tend to go for technical ones: maths
- INSIDE SCHOOL FACTORS AND GIRLS
- MITSOS AND BROWNE teching has been feminised - women are more likely to be teachers
- textbooks and teaching resources are less likely to sterotype girls into passive roles
- GCSES include more coursework which is better suited to giris as theyre: more organised, put in more effort and have better consentration
- the curriculum forced girls to do traditionally male subjects - science
- OUTSIDE FACTORS AND GIRLS
- policies like equal pay act and sex descrimination act helps create more equal oppourunities - changed attitudes in schools
- SHARPE found that girls priorities have changed - they now want careers and qualiforcations and want to be finacially independant
- feminist movement caused a change in female expectations - more careful about negative sterotyping
- boys tend to spend their lesuire time being physically active. but girls spend it communicating and being social = they develop langauge skills
- WHY BOYS UNDERACHIEVE
- boys may be having an indentity crisis - decline of breadwinner role for men and rise in male unemploymentmight mean boys dont see the point in education
- teachers have a lower expectation of boys - can lead to a self fulfilling prophecy
- theyre more likely to be excluded from school
- the feminisation of teaching means that boys dont have as mant role models in school
- reading is often seen as uncool or girly - boys dont tend to read so they dont develop communication skills
- KEY FACTS
- SUBJECT CHOICE
- May be influenced by gender socialisation. feminimity and masculinity create different expectations and sterotypes of what to study
- KELLY found that science is seen as a masculine subject
- parental and teacher expectations may encourage girls to follow what they see as traditional - pressure to conform to social norms
- OLD OF GIRLS EXPLANATION UNDERACHIEVEMENT
- There are 3 explanations for why girls didnt do as well as boys before the 1980's
- 1) biological explanations said gils matured at an earlier age so did better younger and boys would catch up at 16 and overtake
- 2) gender sterotyping started before kids go to school (toys) which helped to socialse girls into sterotypical roles of caring and mothering
- 3) STANWORTH said classroom interaction disadvantaged girls - they got less attention
- SPENDER argued that the curriculum was male centered as boys got more attnetion and got away with being disruptive in class
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