Female Disadvantage Education

Question 1

What did Skelton say?

Answer 1

• hidden curriculum (such as attitudes of teachers) negatively influences subject choices

Question 2

What did Kelly say?

Answer 2

• science is packaged as a boys subject
• boys allowed to dominate science classrooms and examples in textbooks are male related leading to girls being disengaged in the subject

Question 3

What did Colley say?

Answer 3

• subject choices are negatively influenced by perception of gender roles, subject preferences and learning environment
• perception of gender roles: based on how they’ve been socialised at home in terms of gender roles has an impact on what subject they think is gender appropriate
• subject preferences: based on the student and their understanding of how the subject is taught has an impact on their subject choice
• learning environment: if in single sex school, less likely to be influenced by gender based subjects, if in mixed school, more likely to be influenced by gender based subjects