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
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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
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