Feminist View Flashcards
Liberal
Highlight made a lot of progress
Girls have managed to make advances in education - outperform Boyd at GCSE
Points to laws like Sex Discrimination Act + Equality Act
Girls can choose what they study
Evaluation of Liberal feminist view
Subject choices still gendered
Stanworth: gender bias still exists, teachers have higher expectations for boys than girls
Underestimate impact teachers have on formation of gender identity
Radical feminist view
Education patriarchal social institution
Believe role is to reinforce patriarchal ideology and normalises oppression
Schools socialise children into gender roles
Marxist feminist view of education
Education socialises girls to accept their roles as wives
Transmit capitalist social practises, norms and values which uphold oppression of women and girls
Intersectional feminist view
Minority ethnic girls often victims of specific stereotyping
