Gender

Question 1

Gist & Wise
National curriculum

Answer 1

Internal

Feminism has influenced the changes

Have made equal opportunities the fore allowing girls to outperform boys

More opportunities for girls

Question 2

Boaler

Answer 2

INTERNAL
Policies are the key reason for changes in girls achievement

Removed barriers
Made education more metoctatic

• feminists argue that barriers are still present within society

Question 3

Mitos and Browne

Answer 3

Girls are more successful in coursework cause they are more conscientious and better organised than boys putting them at an advantage

• Many subjects as part of the curriculum do not involve coursework e.g the GCSE core subjects which are maths, English and science are exam based

Question 4

Gorard

Answer 4

Achievement gap was fairly constant between 1979 and 1989
When coursework was introduced 1988 girls began to outperform boys

Question 5

Peter and French

Answer 5

Analysed classroom interactions

Teachers interact with boys and girls differently

Boys get more attention that’s negative

Boys dominate in class discussion

Girls tend to be more democratic

Negative interaction could explain why positively responding to girls could lead to a positive self fulfilling prophecy

Question 6

Wiener

Answer 6

Since 1980s, there has been significant change with teachers and textbooks and challenging traditional

Led to greater achievement cause more positive images of what they can achieve

• Radical feminists- women hugely under represented in curriculum -

Question 7

Slee

Answer 7

Boys more likely to have behavioural issues

4 x more likely to be excluded

Question 8

Jackson

Answer 8

League tables have created greater opportunities for girls- they are more desired by schools

Girls take on self fulfilling prophecy of higher achievement

• feminists- the glass ceiling
• liberal feminists- still a genderisation of subjects and career options- limiting girls chooses and options

Question 9

Increasing number of role models

Answer 9

2021/22- 75.5% of teachers are female

Role models to girls showing they can achieve status
Girls more likely to work harder to achieve goals

Boys have lack of male role models

• However still many more men in positions of authority
• feminists- the glass ceiling

Question 10

How has Feminism impacted differences in educational achievement

Answer 10

Improved rights of women
- equal pay act

Raising expectations and self esteem of women

Women no longer just a ‘housewife’

• women still don’t have equal rights
• unequal pay e.g. in sport
• glass ceiling

Question 11

Sue sharpe

Answer 11

• Interviewed girls about their career
• due to increasing employment opportunities, females have become extremely ambitions & aim for ‘high professions’ such as doctors and solicitors
• glass ceiling and pay gap still exists