Gender and education (internal and external factors)
- Created by: Rachellowe
- Created on: 13-05-18 11:59
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- Gender and Education
- Internal factors
- Mitsos and Browne - teaching has become feminised, giving girls more positive role models
- The national curriculum forced girls to do traditionally male subjects
- Girls get more positive teacher attention than boys
- Jackson - boys are labelled negatively by schools and so schools at the top of league tables are less likely to accept them
- Archer - the ongoing achievement of girls is fragile and problematic
- External factors
- Girls are socialised into behaviours well suited fr education
- The Equal Pay Act and Sex Discrimination Act have created more equal opportunities.
- Sue Sharpe - girls priorities have changed
- They now want careers and qualifications not just marriage and children.
- The feminist movement has caused a change in female expectations
- People are now more aware of stereotyping
- The labour market has changed to suit women
- There's been an increase in the service sector and decrease in the primary sector
- Changes in family structure have give girls new independent career role models
- Internal factors
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