Gender differences in achievement

Question 1

Sue Sharpe

Answer 1

two studies of girls in 1970s and 1990s
1970s priorities were marriage etc, domestic roles
1990s- priorities were careers and being imdependant

Question 2

Mitosis and Browne

Answer 2

girls do better in coursework because they’re are more diligent and better organised

Question 3

body’s underachievement:feminisation of schooling

Answer 3

Sewell argues that boys fail because education had ‘feminised’(no competition or leadership, talk about coursework)
lack of male teachers, criticism(francis) two thirds of 7-8 years old believed gender of teachers did not matter

Question 4

give one example of subject gender segregation and one explaining Gender and subject choice

Answer 4

girls in DT chose food,
boys is DT chose resistant materials

from an early at the genders are dressed differently and given different toys.

Question 5

What do feminists argue?

Answer 5

experience in school are a form of social control to reproduce inequality
-verbal abuse etc