Explanations For Female Success
- Created by: AGurung2
- Created on: 14-12-20 14:08
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Education: Why are females becoming more successful?
Key Factors Affecting female success:
- Feminism - improved women's rights; no longer bound to home
- Changes in the family (including the way they're socialised)
- changes in women's employment
- Changing social attitudes
Feminism
Sharpe (1976/1994)
Found that girls' priorities changed from 1976 to 1994
- 1976 - marriage, children
- 1994 - careers and independence more prioritised
McRobbie (1994)
1970s magazines emphasised importance of marriage but this has changed now
Sex Discrimination Act 1975
Law brought to stop…
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