External factors-GIRLS

Question 1

Name all four internal factors for girls.

Answer 1

-Impact of feminism
-changes in families
-changing with women’s employment
-changing ambitions

Question 2

Explain the AO1 of impact of feminism.

Answer 2

-since the 1960’s women’s stereotypes have been challenged.
-feminism raises girls expectations and ambitions this is due to the media

Question 3

What is the AO2 of feminism?

Answer 3

-McRobbie’s comparison of magizenes
-1970’s stressed the importance of marriage
-1990’s emphasised independance and career

Question 4

Evaluate the Impact of feminism.

Answer 4

-full equality hasnt’t been achieved
-Although girls do better in exams they are still unable to get top jobs (face glass ceiling)
-still experiance the patriarchy in schoolm e.g male gaze

Question 5

Explain the AO1 of changes in families.

Answer 5

-There have been major changes in families in the last 30 years
>increase in divorce
>increase in cohabitation
>increase in lone (female) parents
-this affects a girls attitude to learning

Question 6

Give a AO2 of changes in families.

Answer 6

-lone mothers (female-headed families) may mean that more women need to take on the major income earner role.
-creates a new financially independant career minded role model for girls.

Question 7

Evaluate changes in the family.

Answer 7

-some girls may still want to have a traditional nuclear family.
This undermines the importance of the explanation.

Question 8

Explain the AO1 of changes in women’s employment.

Answer 8

-Some women are breaking out of the invisible barrier of the glass ceiling to jobs they were previously denied.

Question 9

What is a AO2 of changes in women’s employment?

Answer 9

-proportion of women in employment has risen from under 53% in 1971 to over 67% in 2013

Question 10

Evaluate changes in women employment.

Answer 10

-most top jobs are still male dominated e.g MP’S, CEO’s
-Women still haven’t broken out of the glass ceiling

Question 11

Explain the AO1 of changing Ambitions.

Answer 11

-it is the view that changes in families and employment produce a change in girls ambitions

Question 12

What are AO2’s for changing Ambitions?

Answer 12

SUE SHARPE-compared results in a interview
1970’s=Had low aspirations and prioritised love,marriage,husbands and children
1990’s=saw there future as independant women with career’s

Question 13

Evaluate changing ambitions.

Answer 13

BIGGART
-WC girls are more likely to face a precarious postion in the labour market
and would see motherhood as the on viable option
-so would see a less point in achieving in education.