Gender 20 Marker Flashcards
How big is the gender gap in GCSE achievement
The largest for seven years
girls getting 73% of the GCSE is reaching grade a* to C
boys 65%
What percentage is the gap GCSE
8%
Girls continue to do better than them mail classmates at the very highest grades
9% of girls getting a*’s compared with 6% of boys
What is the difference in subjects in GCSE
Girls did better in English but boys did slightly better than girls in maths
❌ hides the fact that achievements of both genders have risen
What is the dfes
Department for education and skills
Younger say about GCSEs
Boys indulge in destructive behaviour as a result of attempts to project a macho image
Sharpe say about GCSEs
Shoulder female priorities have changed from marriage and children to a career over a 20 year span this has encouraged females to work hard in education to achieve
Wilkinson say about GCSEs
Women and now more confident assertive and ambitious girls now aim high
What does the dfes say about alevels
8% of boys were graded a* as compared with 7.9% taken by girls
What is the proportion of a to E grades been claimed
Girls continue to outperform boys are the big gap in AS narrow in the last 12 months
Grade As?
25% for boys down from 26% in 2011 girls dropped from 27.7 to 27.2%
💿 girls still gained a larger share of B and C grades
Figures show a big difference in the type of subjects studied by the two genders
girls taking our drama French sociology
boys dominating chemistry maths PE and physics
Analysis of a level data
Boys performance will improve because boys who under achieved at GCSE would not be taking these females performance still exceeding because of their career aspirations
Harris alevel
Females are more organised than males so they achieve higher results due to superior revision
Stanworth A-levels
Girls are pushed by teachers to take certain subjects are art based
hides the fact more females are taking physics but the lack of female taking physics is still a problem
What to crime official statistics show
Crime is mainly a masculine activities
with a 4/5 offenders being male
85 to 95% of offenders found guilty for burglary robbery drug offences ect are male
Pollak crime
Official statistics on crime and gender = highly misleading
underestimate female criminality crimes committed by women I likely to go under reported
Heidensohn crime
Women commit so few crimes because of the way they are ideologically and socially controlled
Messerschmidt crime
Males are under high pressure to be aggressive explains the greater deviance hegemonic masculinity
Self-report studies suggest a link between gender and criminal behaviour
female offenders = escape conviction
women less likely to offend
peak age for female offending is 15
males is 19
Analysis of self-report studies
Given too households which only include petty crimes which males are more likely to commit
female tends to commit fraud or handling stolen goods they are often unnoticed
What do you Victim surveys show
Male are more likely to be the victim of stranger crime women are more likely to be victims of the present or ex partners
2013 two thirds of homicide victims were male
30% of murder victims were fame 1/2 by partner
Analysis of victim surveys
Females are under represented - may not admit to being a victim of sexual crimes
police and courts you female as the one who instigated the sexual behaviour
What depends entirely on police activity and efficiency
Recording of victimless crime for example drugtaking prostitution
