DEA: Gender evidence

Question 1

equal opportunity legislation

Answer 1

Equal Pay Act 1970, Sex Discrimination Act 1975

Question 2

Sharpe

Answer 2

priority shift of girl being more career focusing in the 90’s compared to the 70’s

Question 3

Wilkinson

Answer 3

describes change in attitudes as a ‘gender-quake’

Question 4

Francis

Answer 4

AO3 to labels: boys being punished more harshly

Question 5

Norman

Answer 5

canalisation

Question 6

Mitsos & Browne

Answer 6

parents spend more time talking and reading with girls, the “feminisation of teaching”

Question 7

Harris et al

Answer 7

finds different behaviour of gender to be from gender regimes learnt through role models in the home`

Question 8

Beck and Beck-Gernsheim

Answer 8

relates girls’ ambition change to individualism and the need for economic independence in a post modern society

Question 9

Reay

Answer 9

AO3 class difference: w/c girls tend to have more traditional aspiration due to their class position and limited job opportunities

Question 10

Mac & Ghaill

Answer 10

w/c boys experiencing a “crisis of masculinity” due to changes in the job market and family structures

Question 11

Willis

Answer 11

developing anti-school subcultures to gain credibility from peers, supporting their masculine identity

Question 12

Harris

Answer 12

describes w/c boys attitudes to education as a result of gender-regimes in the home

Question 13

Colley

Answer 13

explain the segregated curriculum as a result of dominant definitions of gender and differences of learning styles/ teaching methods

Question 14

Abraham

Answer 14

identified teachers labelling and treatment of the typical gender and the ‘cowboy faction’, using this as a reason for differential behaviour

Question 15

Marketisation policies

Answer 15

a reason for why girls are favoured in a-c economy due to exam success= SFP

Question 16

Epstein

Answer 16

pupil response of boys fear bullying if they are hard-working

Question 17

Jackson

Answer 17

that ‘laddish behaviour’ is a result of wanting to do well academically but also wanting to appear cool

Question 18

Archer

Answer 18

w/c girls may have a hyper-heterosexual identity to gather symbolic capital to fit in

Question 19

Bourdieu

Answer 19

explains symbolic violence- girls being denying symbolic capital and becoming outcasted

Question 20

Evans

Answer 20

found some w/c girls only go to uni to support their families

Question 21

Sewell

Answer 21

because education has been “feminised” it no longer nurtures masculine identities

Question 22

Leonard

Answer 22

in same-sex schools, pupils are more likely to opt for the opposite genders traditional subjects

Question 23

Skelton

Answer 23

the “male gaze”- the behaviour of male teachers and students reflecting dominant ideas of masculinity