Gender and educational attainment (Females)

Question 1

External factors

Answer 1

• Primary socialisation
• Female emancipation
• Changes in family/marriage
• Increased employment opportunities
• Girls ambitions changed
• Girls heightened aspirations
• More equality

Question 2

Internal factors

Answer 2

• Feminisation of teaching and teacher attention
• GCSE’s and coursework
• GIST and WISE
• Selection and league tables

Question 3

Becky Francis

Answer 3

Female aspiration had changed

Asked girls about career ambitions and most had high aspirations and very few saw future in traditional female jobs

Question 4

Sue Sharpe

Answer 4

Girls ambitions have changed over twenty years - compared results of interviews she conducted with girls in 70s and 90s

• female underachievement disappeared and now studying wider range of subjects
• 67% of girls want to stay in education