GENDER AND SUBJECT CHOICE
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- Created on: 17-04-13 18:15
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- GENDER AND SUBJECT CHOICE
- EARLY SOCIOLOSATION
- BRYNE shows that teachers encourage boys to be tough and show initative girls however are expected to be quite, tidy and helpful
- From a young age boys and girls are dressed and treated diffferently and encouraged to take part in different activites
- girls prefer story books so like engligh subjects
- GENDER DOMAINS
- Tasks and activities that boys and girls see 'male' or 'female' territory.
- Children are more confident when engaging tasks that they seen as part of their own gender domain
- MURPHY boys designed powerboats and battleships, girls cruise ships. boys designed sports car and army cars whilst girl designed famlily cars
- GENDER SUBJECT IMAGES
- KELLY scince a boys subject because teachers more likely to be men, examples often used boys,
- COLLEY computer studies is male as it it uses computers, abstract teaching styles nio group work
- Those who go to single sex schools less likely to see subjects as differetn genders
- PEER PREASURE
- sport not feminime so girls have to deal with negative image
- preausre to stick to gender domains
- GENDERED CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
- Jobs tend to be either male or female
- nurces are seen to be female and so boys don't want to study them
- most women re employed in clerical, secretarial,peronal services and cleaning
- EARLY SOCIOLOSATION
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