Gender Socialisation Flashcards
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What is gender socialisation
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- Learning gender appropriate norms and values
- Sex role theory - Talcott Parsons
1 Male - instrumental role
2 Female - expressive
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gender socialisation impact on educational achievement
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- literacy skills - reading is feminised
- Girls socialised into being more passive and obedient - the ideal pupil
- Canalisation - toys given to young children develop different skill sets
- Subject choices - girls socialised into softer humanities subjects rather than complex scientific subjects
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Evidence of gender socialisation impacting on achievement
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- Across all social classes and ethnic groups, girls achieve higher than male counterparts
- percentage of girls entering into humanities subjects over sciences
- Boys still dominate subjects in male domains of physics, maths and computer science
4
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Changes to gender socialisation and impact on educational achievement
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- links to rise feminism and changing career aspirations
- More females working leads to girls seeing female parents as role models
- initiatives to promote female empowerment have led to changes to early socialisation
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Evaluations
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- changing nature of socialisation in 21st century
- socialisation of girls getting into a career
- still a gap - although closing - in highest positions
- gender socialisation differs by cultural background
- out of school factor reinforced by in school factors