education 2B key terms

Question 1

WISE

Answer 1

Women into science and engineering

Question 2

STEM

Answer 2

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics

Question 3

Service sector

Answer 3

Area of the economy concerned with the production of services instead of actual products, for example administration, the leisure industry. Also known as the tertiary sector.

Question 4

Masculinity

Answer 4

Qualities or characteristics seen to be typical of men

Question 5

Anti-learning subculture

Answer 5

An anti-school subculture refers to a group in school whose values attitudes and behaviour is in opposition of those in the school.

Question 6

Crisis of masculinity

Answer 6

Men feel insecure about their role in society.

Question 7

Feminised

Answer 7

Associated with women

Question 8

Gender socialisation

Answer 8

The process through which children learn about the social expectations, attitudes and behaviours typically associated with being a boy or girl.

Question 9

Gender identity

Answer 9

How people see themselves, and how others see them, in terms of their gender roles.

Question 10

Masculinisation

Answer 10

The process of becoming associated with men.

Question 11

Male gaze

Answer 11

Men looking at women as sexual objects.