Gender And Education

Question 1

Coffey

Answer 1

Suggests that boys can not be labelled as underachievers and both sexes have improved over the years. However girls just get better grades at school when compared to boys all levels at school

Question 2

Mcrobbie

Answer 2

Talks about the gender external factor the rise of feminism and uses examples in the past magazines encouraged girls to get married but now emphasise career and independence

Question 3

Silver and schor

Answer 3

Gender external factor changes in in family where housework commercialised more women find full time jobs men willing to help them at home

Question 4

Changes in women’s employment

Answer 4

Equal pay act illegal for women to be paid less than men for equal work and sex discrimination act. Gender external factor

Question 5

Sharpe

Answer 5

Gender external factor in the 70s girls low aspiration married and babies are life goals in 90s financial freedom and independence is main priority.

Question 6

Fullers study

Answer 6

Low aspire no job after 16, middle up in till uni nursing courses and higher mba

Question 7

Mac and ghaill

Answer 7

Working class boys socialised into being the primary bread winner low manufacturing jobs cause increase in the ‘crisis of masculinity’ and women becoming breadwinners

Question 8

Hyper masculinity

Answer 8

Exaggeration of male stereotypical behaviour

Question 9

Hegemonic masculinity

Answer 9

Social institutions like sports teams which make males have superior positions

Question 10

The new man

Answer 10

Men changing to more feminine helping with housework

Question 11

Jackson

Answer 11

Working class men think education is irrelevant they will end up doing unskilled labour supporiting delinquent subculture sugar man. External gender factor men

Question 12

Francis and Skelton

Answer 12

Gender external factor boys underachieve as they are insecure and vunerable follow subcultures to boost low self esteem from being dumb

Question 13

Rothermol

Answer 13

Home educated boys educationally achieve better than girls gender internal factor genera factors

Question 14

Epstein

Answer 14

School cater education system to support women female dominating environment not masculine socialising men to be cleaning gender internal factor gender factors

Question 15

Stan worth and spender

Answer 15

Teacher expectations cause discrimination against girls gender internal factor gender factors

Question 16

Pirie

Answer 16

Gender internal factor assessments talks that exams with less coursework more exam based favoured boys. That is why girls did better as they are good at coursework

Question 17

Bleach

Answer 17

Gender Internal facto curriculum girls prefer non fiction men prefer fiction

Question 18

Skelton Francis and valkanova

Answer 18

Stereotypically that subject choice are chosen by gender like men doing maths science economics whilst women do social science humanities