DEA: Gender evidence Flashcards
equal opportunity legislation
Equal Pay Act 1970, Sex Discrimination Act 1975
Sharpe
priority shift of girl being more career focusing in the 90’s compared to the 70’s
Wilkinson
describes change in attitudes as a ‘gender-quake’
Francis
AO3 to labels: boys being punished more harshly
Norman
canalisation
Mitsos & Browne
parents spend more time talking and reading with girls, the “feminisation of teaching”
Harris et al
finds different behaviour of gender to be from gender regimes learnt through role models in the home`
Beck and Beck-Gernsheim
relates girls’ ambition change to individualism and the need for economic independence in a post modern society
Reay
AO3 class difference: w/c girls tend to have more traditional aspiration due to their class position and limited job opportunities
Mac & Ghaill
w/c boys experiencing a “crisis of masculinity” due to changes in the job market and family structures
Willis
developing anti-school subcultures to gain credibility from peers, supporting their masculine identity
Harris
describes w/c boys attitudes to education as a result of gender-regimes in the home
Colley
explain the segregated curriculum as a result of dominant definitions of gender and differences of learning styles/ teaching methods
Abraham
identified teachers labelling and treatment of the typical gender and the ‘cowboy faction’, using this as a reason for differential behaviour
Marketisation policies
a reason for why girls are favoured in a-c economy due to exam success= SFP
Epstein
pupil response of boys fear bullying if they are hard-working
Jackson
that ‘laddish behaviour’ is a result of wanting to do well academically but also wanting to appear cool
Archer
w/c girls may have a hyper-heterosexual identity to gather symbolic capital to fit in
Bourdieu
explains symbolic violence- girls being denying symbolic capital and becoming outcasted
Evans
found some w/c girls only go to uni to support their families
Sewell
because education has been “feminised” it no longer nurtures masculine identities
Leonard
in same-sex schools, pupils are more likely to opt for the opposite genders traditional subjects
Skelton
the “male gaze”- the behaviour of male teachers and students reflecting dominant ideas of masculinity
