Card 29 - Gender Differential Attainment: Impact of Feminism

Question 0

Summarise Sharpe’s theory on changing women ambitions.

Answer 0

• Girls in the 1970s were found to value love, marriage and children over careers. Believed it was seen as unattractive to be ambitious and intelligent.
• Girls in the 1990s were shown to place more value in being an independent woman with a career in their future, as opposed to the husband and childbearing.

Question 1

How have girl’s aspirations changed since the 1970s?

Answer 1

• Changed from prioritising love, marriage, husbands and children in their future before careers to prioritising being an independent woman with a healthy career in the 1990s.