gender differences in subject choice

Subject choices

Outside school explanations -primary socialisation (family shapes masculine and female identities) for example, the toys you play with: Kelly (1987) argues that males tend to grow up grow up playing with construction toys such as lego and meccano which serves to generate an early interest in scietific based subjects. whereas females play in a caring and communicative way with dolls and so develop an interest in language based subjects. Also the books you read, boys tend to read hobby books and informative texts whereas girls prefer to read stories, this is said to reinforce why boy prefer science based subjects and girls language.
Career aspirations- women tend…