Gender Gap in Achievement| External Flashcards
factors outside the educational system e.g home, family, wider society.
What do Feminists advocate for?
Strives for equal rights for women and all areas of life.
What did Feminists challenge the traditional stereotype of?
Women’s roles as mothers and housewives.
How did the Feminist movement impact women’s daily lives?
Improving women’s rights, opportunities through changes of the law.
What did McRobbie study about girls’ magazines? How do they differ from how it is shown now?
‘Left on the shelf’, mothers, housewives.
Nowadays shown as assertive and independent.
‘Women of the Year’
What are some of the changes in the family?
Increase in divorce rate, increase in cohabitation, increasing number of lone parent families.
What did the increase of lone-parent, female-headed families affect girls’ attitudes?
More women taking on the breadwinner role, new adult role models.
What was the law in 1970 that made it illegal to pay women less than men for work of equal value?
Equal Pay Act.
What was the law made in 1975?
Discrimination Act.
The pay gap between men and women have halved from 30%, what is the percentage?
15%.
What is the invisible barrier that women try hard to move up on?
Glass ceiling.
Sue Sharpe interviewed women and how they see their future, what was their response? [negative]
1974- low aspirations; educational success was unfeminine, unattractive.
Sue Sharpe interviewed women and how they see their future, what was their response?[positive]
1990s- see future as an independent women with a career rather than a dependent on their husband and his income.
They were able to support themselves.
O’Connor studied 14-17 year olds and found something that they did not want to involve within their future, what was it?
Marriage.
Beck and Gernsheim talk about the trend of individualisation in modern society; this is where independence is more valued than the past. What did careers mean to women?
A promise of recognition and economic self-sufficiency.
Who studied that women believed they were the creators of their future and had an individualised notion of self.
Fuller.
