Gender in education: External factors Flashcards
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explanation of differential socialisation
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- bedroom culture- girls play indoors, boys outside
- girls bought toys improving reading writing eg secret diaries + more likely sit talking improving linguistics
- boys bought toys encouraging masculine traits eg independence, confidence which is less useless in ed
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differential socialisation: Burns and Bracy
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girls take more care in presentation of their work. more organised, more likely do homework. Boys believed school work ‘should be done at school’ So girls perform better
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differential socialisation: Hannon
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girls spend their social time on activities which help them in school
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explanation of changing female aspirations
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position of women changed in last 50 years as result of impact of feminism and changes to families
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explanation of changing female aspirations: Sharpe
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- 1990s girls more confident, assertive
- 1970s girls ‘love, marriage, husbands’
- 1990- ‘job, career, supporting themselves’
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explanation of changing female aspirations: Wilkinson
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’ gender quake ‘
young females now striving for successful careers with good wages, more confident, assertive, ambitious
