Achievement in gender

Question 1

External

Answer 1

Impact of feminism
Changes in the family
Women’s employment
Changing ambitions

Question 2

Sue Sharps

Changing ambitions

Answer 2

Compared w/c girls in the 70’s with 90’s
Found 90’s girls where more confident and ambitious
Priorities in 70’s where love and marriage whilst 90’s where wary of relationships

Question 3

Fuller

Answer 3

Girls recognise the need for good education - in Black girls study educational success was apart of identity. Believed in meritocracy.

Question 4

Internal

Answer 4

Equal opportunities - 1988 Education reform act made genders have same subjects and science compulsory. GIST + WISE + National curriculum moves gender barriers
-Positive female role models - increased number of female teachers. School has become ‘feminised’

Question 5

Peter and Jane French

Answer 5

boys got more attention than girls in classroom as they attracted reprimands

Question 6

Francis

Answer 6

boys are disciplined more harshly and felt picked on