gender and subject choice Flashcards
childhood socialisation
primary socialisation and secondary
girls latch onto subjects like arts that have been feminised
francis - gendered toys eg caring skills, lego - practical skills - colours and images - hairdressing and studies for girls
PM - too deterministic
gender domains
Browne and Ross - socialisation leads to children seeing certain tasks as a particular gender’s territory
more confident with tasks in own domain - subjects
feminists - women’s gender domains falling within 5Cs of low paid work - cashiering, cleaning, catering, clerical and caring
gendered career opportunities
certain jobs linked to more men eg mechanics and electricians while nursery workers - female
Fuller - caring courses reflected working class girls habitus
- school work experience programmes also pushed girls into gendered and class occupations
evaluations of external factors - limitations
feminism has changed the way girls perceive themselves - now more likely to see themselves in a variety of roles, including skilled workers
girls not passive - interactionism - can reject hegemonic femininity and boys can reject hegemonic masculinity
no uniform socialisation into gender code - m/c mothers supportive of academics
postmodernists - individuals no longer restricted by structural forces such as gender domains
gendered subject images
Kelly - science is a male subject - most teachers are male
undermines girls’ confidence
- science and maths textbooks
Colley - gender perception crucial to subject choice
single-sex schools hold less stereotyped subject images - Leonard - boys in boys’ schools more likely to take english and languages - less peer pressure?
peer pressure
Skelton et al - gender stereotyping among students and teachers significant
Dewar - male students called sporty girls lesbian - less likely to do sport
bullying
Institute of Physics - mixed-setting put girls off - mixed schools
limitation of internal factors
differences in subject choices are much larger in vocational courses
postmodernists - subject choice is individual choice - not restrained by identities or peers