Education and gender Essay!

Question 1

Why do girls over achieve?

Internal

Answer 1

Equal opportunities policies.

Coursework

Question 2

Why do girls overachieve?

External

Answer 2

Feminism
Change in laws/ work force
Early Socialisation

Question 3

Why do boys underachieve?

Answer 3

Anti-school subculture

early socialisation

Question 4

Change in employment facts

Answer 4

More women in the work force. Young girls now strive to have a career.
1970 equal pay act
1975 sex discrimination act

Question 5

Evaluation to change in employment

Answer 5

Mitsos and Browne
>Work in contemporary Britain is becoming more feminised. Boys are having an identity crisis. Some refer to it as the masculinity crisis. Boys no longer strive to achieve

Question 6

The impact of feminism.

Answer 6

Feminism introduced new ideas of how a woman could live her life. Women can now choose to not get married early.

Question 7

Feminism sociologist

Answer 7

McRobbie.
>Study on girls magazines. In the 1970s they portrayed girls attitudes to be focused on marriage, husbands, and babies. This was different in the 1990 magazines. Girls were more focused on achieving good grades in order to achieve a good job.

Question 8

Evaluation to feminism

Answer 8

Positive evaluation.
March of progress. Wilkinson found there was a gender quake. Women had a profound change in their attitudes towards their future than that of their grandmother.

Question 9

Equal opportunities policies.

Answer 9

W.I.S.E/G.I.S.T.
The education system have become more ‘gender aware’ Leading to more policies based on gender equality. This has allowed girls to reach their full potential in education. They are no longer limited to ‘girl’ subjects such as cooking and home economics.

Question 10

Evaluation to equal opportunity policies

Answer 10

The feminisation of teaching has had an impact on boys performance in school. Boys are put off by thier female teachers as they may believe they have nothing in common.

Question 11

Early socialisation

Answer 11

Boys under achieve due to poor literacy skills. Boys are more likely to develop this due to their gender socialisation.Parents read less to boys. Instead they encourage sports. This is backed up with the statistic that girls are 10%more likely to achieve A* to C grades at GCSE.

Question 12

Early socialisation Evaluation

Answer 12

Mitsos and Browne argues that Girls gender norms are better suited to school. Qiuet, Listeners, organised. Therefore girls outperform boys.

Question 13

Sociologists that states jobs are becoming feminised

Answer 13

Mitsos and browne

Question 14

Sociologists that did the magazine study

Answer 14

McRobbie

Question 15

Gender quake sociologist

Answer 15

Wilkonson

Question 16

Sociologist who interviewed girls in the 70s and 90s

Answer 16

Sue sharpes

Question 17

Sociologists who argued that girls gender norms favour school than boys

Answer 17

Mitsos and browne

Question 18

Laddish Subculture

Answer 18

Willis. Boys tend to form them. In order to gain power and control with their peers.

Question 19

How do boys seek to gain control?

Answer 19

Through negative strategies.

Question 20

Laddish subculture sociologists

Answer 20

Willis.

Question 21

Evaluation

Answer 21

Mirza. Found that girls formed pro-school subcultures. Actively encouraged eachother to learn.