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Question 1

What 2 factors impact educational achievement?

Answer 1

• Subject choice

- Gender identity

Question 2

What are 3 explanations for the gender difference in subject choice?

Answer 2

• Gendered subject images
• Peer pressure
• Gendered career opportunities

Question 3

What did Kelly say about gendered subject images?

Answer 3

• Science teachers are more likely to be male, this means girls are less likely to chose STEM subjects

Question 4

What did Paetcher say about peer pressure?

Answer 4

• Pupils see sports as mainly a male gender domain
• And girls who choose sport often contradicts the conventional female stereotype
• This could lead to bullying

Question 5

What are 3 ways that gender identity affects educational achievement?

Answer 5

• Female peer groups
• Double standards
• Verbal abuse

Question 6

What did Archer say about female peer groups?

Answer 6

• Working class girls aimed to gain symbolic capital from their female peer groups and adopt a hyper heterosexual feminine identity

Question 7

What did Lees say about double standards?

Answer 7

• Double standards of sexual morality is where boys boast about their sexual experiences with girls
• This causes girls to be labelled “promiscuous”

Question 8

What did Connell say about verbal abuse?

Answer 8

• A vocabulary of abuse is one of the ways in which dominant gender and sexual identities are reinforced