Gender - Girls Outperforming Boys (External Factors)

Question 0

Changes in family

Answer 0

• Increase of single mums: don’t have to rely on men

- More mums work: girls want to be like their mums

Question 1

Feminism

Answer 1

• Empowered girls & women
• Expect to have equality with men
• Girls now raised to be ambitious

Question 2

Employment - 1970 Equal Pay Act

Answer 2

• 79% of women now do paid work

- 2013: women under 29 starting to earn as much as or more than men

Question 3

Ambitions - Sharpe

Answer 3

• Girls ambitions are more on work than family & marriage