Gender and Educational Achievement

Question 1

Cohen

Answer 1

Girls have educational outperformed boys since the introduction of mass education however girls in the UK have not always had the same opportunities to progress to higher levels of education

Question 2

Edwards and David

Answer 2

Gendered - differentiated primary socialisation gives girls an initial advantage in both primary and secondary school but still tend to create a male dominated society.

Question 3

Wilkinson

Answer 3

Young women have experienced a ‘genderquake’ in terms of their attitudes and expectations about their futures compared with mothers and grandmothers
Aspirations no longer restricted to that of family life

Question 4

Sue Sharpe

Answer 4

Surveys of young WC women
1970’s they held very tradition ideas of women prioritising love marriage and children
1990’s found priorities had changed to job, careers and being able to support themselves.

Question 5

Wragg

Answer 5

Believed pessimism about the world of work induced by declining job prospects for males had filtered down to primary school boys and undermines their desire to work hard.

Question 6

Jackson

Answer 6

WC male adolescents may conclude education as being irrelevant as they see that the jobs that they will end up doing are un / semi skilled
Looking for other forms of status which may be achieved by exaggerating their masculinity through involvement in delinquent anti - school subcultures