Gender Differences In Education Flashcards
What are the differences in achievement between boys and girls when starting school?
Teacher assessments of pupils at the end of yr 1 showed boys ahead of boys by between 7+17 percentage points in all 7 areas of learning assessed. Girls were also better than boys at concentrating. A DfE study found that in state primary schools, boys were 2 and a half times more likely than girls to have statements of special educational needs.
What are the differences in achievement between boys and girls at key stages 1 to 3?
Girls do consistently better than boys. This is especially so in English, where the gender gap steadily widens with age. In science and maths the gap is much narrower but girls still do better.
What are the differences in achievement between boys and girls at gcse?
The gender gap stands at around 10%. This shows that while the gap is becoming more narrow, girls still do significantly better.
What are the differences in achievement between boys and girls at AS and A level?
Girls are more likely to sit, pass and get higher grades than boys, though the gap is much narrower than at GCSE. In 2013, for example, 46.8% of girls gained A or B grades at A level, but only 42.2% of boys. Even in so-called ‘boys’ subjects such as math and physics, girls were more likely than boys to get grades A-C.
What are the differences in achievement between boys and girls on vocational courses?
Preparing students for a career, results show a similar pattern. A larger proportion of girls achieve distinctions in every subject, including those such as engineering and construction where girls are a tiny minority of the students.
What are external factors?
Factors outside the education system.
Give 2 examples of external factors.
Home and family background
Wider society
What are internal factors?
Factors within schools and the education system.
Give an example of an internal factor.
The effect of schools’ equal opportunities policy.
What is feminism?
Feminism is a social movement that strives for equal rights for a women in all areas of life.
What has the feminist movement challenged?
Since the 1960s, the feminist movement has challenged the traditional stereotype of a women’s role as solely that of a mother and housewife in a patriarchal nuclear family and inferior to men outside the home, in work, education and the law.
What do feminists argue about equality?
We haven’t yet achieved full equality between the sexes, the feminist movement has had considerable success in improving women’s rights and opportunities through changes in the law. More broadly, feminism has raised women’s expectations and self-esteem.
What was McRobbie’s study of girls’ magazines?
In the 1970s they emphasised the importance of getting married and not being ‘left on the shelf’, whereas nowadays, they contain images of assertive, independent women.
Give an example of the effect of changes encouraged by feminism.
The changes encouraged by feminism
