Gender and Attainment

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What did Sharpe find in the 1990s about girls priorities?
more focused on career path and doing well in school - not love and marriage - girls are more ambitious in school
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What did Licht and Dweck find out about boys and girls in the classroom?
In primary school boys are more confident, girls underestimate their abilities so find it more difficult
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What did Stanworth find out about teachers attitudes towards boys vs girls?
Teachers tended to remember boys names more easily even if they are quiet
The most assertive girls tended not to be the intelligent ones
Teachers believed in stereotypical jobs for students based on their gender
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What did Lobban find out about school reading schemes?
Books studied or used in schools had more male heroes - very few females lead characters/heroes
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What did Francis find out about punishment for bad behaviour - girls vs boys ?
Boys were disciplined more harshly
Teachers have lower expectations of boys than girls when it came to behaviour
Boys were also the noisier ones
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How has increased divorce rates impacted girls achievement in school?
girls focus on their career aspirations, not going straight into marriage - especially if may end in divorce
women need to have a good job to be financially independent
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How has an increase in female headed lone parent households impacted girls achievement?
Women are and have to be financially independent - relationships are no longer essential, focus on making own money and running own household - girls no longer have to have traditional lifestyles - focus on themselves and what they want
Moving away from u
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How has an increase in cohabitation impacted girls achievement in school?
Girls want to make their own money and not share it with their partner, still have a relationship and be independent financially
reduces the role of the housewife
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How does women having less children impact girls educational achievement?
Women are spending more time on their careers and less time having children
Want to do better in school to kickstart their career
may have children later on in life
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How has more women staying single impacted girls educational achievement?
Women are not actively looking for a relationship, focusing on their careers - higher education and getting a good job
Not as much pressure to be in a relationship - moving away from traditional female role
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How has the labour market changed? name three law changes that impact women's rights in the workplace
Heavy industry - typically high in male employment - has declined
Service jobs - typically high in female employment - has increased
Equal Pay Act of 1970
Sex Discrimination Act 1975
Equal Pay Act 2010
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What did Norman find out about early socialisation?
The types of toys children play with from a young age influences their aspirations
the media they are exposed to also has an impact
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What did Beck say about individualisation in relation to career aspirations?
Second Modernity - fewer jobs for life, people make career changes if their original job no longer suits them
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Why has the feminisation of schools led to boys underachieving?
learning is considered feminine - some boys don't want to be seen as feminine in any way - not cool - created anti-school culture
most primary school teachers are female - find it harder to relate to them
harsher discipline on boys - school works against
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How has masculinity and laddish culture prevented boys from doing well?
peer pressure to mess around, not seen as cool to work hard and focus in lessons
messing around and not working hard may be a rejection of the competitive education system
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How has changes to the labour market led to boys underachieving?
'masculine' jobs have moved abroad - manufacturing
lack of motivation to well in school - don't want to go into 'feminine' jobs
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What do some sociologists say about the moral panic surrounding boys underachievement?
It is overstated, there was no moral panic when girls were underachieving
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How have employment rates changed from 1970 to 2016?
females
1970-53% 2016- 70%
males
1970-92% 2016- 79%
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What is a self-fulfilling prophecy? how does this link to Licht and Dweck's research on girls vs boys behaviour in the classroom?
People expectations of themselves or the expectations of others impacts how well they do - low expectations may lead to low results
Girls begin to feel as they will always do badly because they failed once - may end in them doing worse because of that be
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What is an inside factor?
something inside the education system (seating plans/bullying) that has an impact on something - attainment, behaviour
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What is an outside/external factor?
something outside of the education system (parental situation, social class) that has an impact on something inside of school (educational outcomes, attainment)
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Are there any differences in subject choice between girls and boys?
differences are small at GCSE
get wider at A-Level and wider again at university
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What did Licht and Dweck find out about boys and girls in the classroom?

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