Education and Gender

Question 1

External factors and girls achievement

Answer 1

Changes in girls perception

Changes in the family

Impact of feminism

Changes in women’s employment

Question 2

Internal factors and girls achievement

Answer 2

Equal opportunities policies

Role models

Coursework

Stereotypes in learning materials

Teacher attention

Selection and league tables

Identity, class and girls’ achievement

Successful working class girls

Question 3

Boys’ underachievement

Answer 3

Literacy

Globalisation and decline of traditional men’s jobs

Feminisation of schooling

Lack of male role models at home

Laddish subcultures

Policies to raise boys’ achievement

Question 4

Gender and subject choice

Answer 4

National curriculum

Post 16 education

Vocational subjects

Question 5

Explaining gender and subject choice

Answer 5

Early socialisation

Gender domains

Gendered subject images

Gender identity and peer pressure

Gendered careers

Question 6

Gender identity and schooling

Answer 6

Verbal abuse

Teachers

The male gaze

Double standards

Female peer groups