Girls and education- external factors
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- Created on: 26-04-17 09:20
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- Girls' achievement- External factors
- The impact of feminism
- The movement has challenged inequality- which has improved policy and opportunities
- Changes are reflected in the media images and messages
- McRobbie (1994)
- Studied girls' magazines
- Previously- emphasised getting married and not being left on the shelf
- Now: images of independent women
- Studied girls' magazines
- Affects girls' self-image and ambitions in terms of their family and careers
- McRobbie (1994)
- Changes in women's' employment
- Important changes
- 1970 Equal Pay Act
- Pay gap has halved to 15% since 1975
- 1975 Sex Discrimination Act
- Proportion of women in employment- 53% in 1971, 67% uin 2013
- Women are breaking through the glass ceiling
- Girls see their future in paid work, rather than as a housewife
- Incentive to gain qualifications
- 1970 Equal Pay Act
- Important changes
- Changes in the family
- Changes include
- Increase in divorce
- Unwise to rely on a husband
- Increase in cohabitation
- Decrease in first marriages
- Increase of lone-parent families
- See women as breadwinner
- See being a financially independent woman as her goal
- See women as breadwinner
- Increase in divorce
- Changes include
- Girls' changing ambitions
- Sharpe interviews in 1970 and 1990
- 1970- low aspirations, education is unfeminine, ambitious is unattractive, priority is husband and family
- 1990- ambitious to support themselves, future as an independent woman
- Girls now recognise that to be successful, they need a good education
- Creators of their own future- believing in meritocracy
- Sharpe interviews in 1970 and 1990
- The impact of feminism
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