Gender - Females

Question 1

External - McRobbie

Answer 1

Compared girls magazines in the 1970s and 90s. The focus of the magazines changed from marriage to career based

Question 2

External - Changes in the family

Answer 2

Increase in divorce rate, cohabitation, female headed lone parent families, decrease in number of first marriages

Question 3

External - Change in employment opportunities

Answer 3

Number of women in employment increased, fall in the pay gap (30%-17%)

Question 4

External - Sue Sharpe (1994)

Answer 4

Interviews with working class girls in 1970s and 90s. Their ambitions changed from marraige to career based.

Question 5

Internal - Equal opportunity policies

Answer 5

GIST = Girls into Science and Technology
WISE = Women into Science and Engineering

Teachers have actively challenged stereotypical images

Question 6

Internal - positive role models

Answer 6

‘Feminisation of education’

Question 7

Internal - Mitsos and Browne

Answer 7

Introduction of course work being beneficial to female students

Question 8

Internal - Archer

Answer 8

Girls attempt to gain symbolic capital (status) in different ways =

Working class hyper-heterosexual feminine identities - spend money on this