Explanations For Female Success

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  • Created by: AGurung2
  • Created on: 14-12-20 14:08

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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