Gender 20 Marker

Question 1

How big is the gender gap in GCSE achievement

Answer 1

The largest for seven years
girls getting 73% of the GCSE is reaching grade a* to C

boys 65%

Question 2

What percentage is the gap GCSE

Answer 2

8%

Question 3

Girls continue to do better than them mail classmates at the very highest grades

Answer 3

9% of girls getting a*’s compared with 6% of boys

Question 4

What is the difference in subjects in GCSE

Answer 4

Girls did better in English but boys did slightly better than girls in maths

❌ hides the fact that achievements of both genders have risen

Question 5

What is the dfes

Answer 5

Department for education and skills

Question 6

Younger say about GCSEs

Answer 6

Boys indulge in destructive behaviour as a result of attempts to project a macho image

Question 7

Sharpe say about GCSEs

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Wilkinson say about GCSEs

Answer 8

Women and now more confident assertive and ambitious girls now aim high

Question 9

What does the dfes say about alevels

Answer 9

8% of boys were graded a* as compared with 7.9% taken by girls

Question 10

What is the proportion of a to E grades been claimed

Answer 10

Girls continue to outperform boys are the big gap in AS narrow in the last 12 months

Question 11

Grade As?

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Figures show a big difference in the type of subjects studied by the two genders

Answer 12

girls taking our drama French sociology

boys dominating chemistry maths PE and physics

Question 13

Analysis of a level data

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Harris alevel

Answer 14

Females are more organised than males so they achieve higher results due to superior revision

Question 15

Stanworth A-levels

Answer 15

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

Question 16

What to crime official statistics show

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Pollak crime

Answer 17

Official statistics on crime and gender = highly misleading

underestimate female criminality crimes committed by women I likely to go under reported

Question 18

Heidensohn crime

Answer 18

Women commit so few crimes because of the way they are ideologically and socially controlled

Question 19

Messerschmidt crime

Answer 19

Males are under high pressure to be aggressive explains the greater deviance hegemonic masculinity

Question 20

Self-report studies suggest a link between gender and criminal behaviour

Answer 20

female offenders = escape conviction
women less likely to offend
peak age for female offending is 15

males is 19

Question 21

Analysis of self-report studies

Answer 21

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

Question 22

What do you Victim surveys show

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Analysis of victim surveys

Answer 23

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

Question 24

What depends entirely on police activity and efficiency

Answer 24

Recording of victimless crime for example drugtaking prostitution