Gender and Subject Choice
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- Created on: 16-11-16 14:29
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- Gender and Subject Choice
- Early Socialisation
- Norman – boys and girls dress, play and act differently
- Parents reward boys for being active and girls for being passive
- Murphy and Elwood – boys read information books (science) and girls read stories (English)
- Boys play with DIY tools so they pick woodwork and girls play with cooking toys so they pick food technology
- There are more single parents now so boys and girls may be influenced differently
- Gender Domains
- Brown and Ross – genders have their territory shaped by early life
- Females are more caring so they pick health and social care
- More single parents means men look after children more so can be interested in subjects like health and social care
- Gendered Subject Image
- Most science teachers are male so it is seen as a masculine subject
- Girls won’t pick science due to it being male-dominated
- Girls have to do science until they are 16 due to National Curriculum
- GIST encourages girls to do science
- Peer Pressure
- Girls who like PE are seen as ‘butch’ by peers
- Girls will choose feminine subjects to avoid name-calling or they may pick the same as their friends
- Single-sex schools mean that less stereotypical choices can be picked due to less peer pressure
- Girls are encourage to do sport more (eg. Sports day)
- Gendered Career Opertunities
- 1/2 of women’s employment is clerical secretarial, personal services or cleaning whilst 1/6 of men do these
- 1% of construction apprentices are female
- Jobs are dominated by a certain gender – boys won’t pick a childcare course due to this
- Sex-typed jobs are challenged as women don’t always do ‘housewife’ jobs
- Early Socialisation
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