2) gender and subject choice

Question 1

(GASC) Trends

Answer 1

National Curriculum - design and tech, compulsory, girls go for food tech, textiles and boys graphic, wood tech
A and AS-levels - boys go for maths and physics, girls sociology, languages, english
Vocational - 1 in 100 childcare apprentices is a boy

Question 2

(GASC) Gender role socialisation and Gender Domains

Answer 2

Murphy and Elwood - differences in gender socialisation gives different reading tastes and subject choice
Gender domains = ‘territory’ mending a car, male not caring for sick kid
Boys read hobby books gives science interest, girls read people books leading to English interest. CPOW and Postmodernism would AO3 this

Question 3

(GASC) Gendered Subject Images

Answer 3

Kelly sees why science is seen as boys subject - science teachers often male, boys see lab as ‘theirs’
Colley - computer studies masculine, working with machines (male gender domain) with little group work which girls prefer
same sax schools ppl had less stereotyped subject images less traditional choices
Leonard - girls in all-girls likely to take maths and science A-levels more, similar find with Institute of Physics
AO3 - GIST and WISE

Question 4

(GASC) Peer Pressure

Answer 4

Paetcher - sports in ale gender domain, girls will be labelled ‘butch’ or ‘gay’ and bully
Boys don’t do dance and music because others will see the subject as outside the male gender domain and bully

Question 5

(GASC) Peer Pressure AO3

Answer 5

Liberal feminists would argue this is too deterministic, shift in students choosing outside their domain, e.g. girls in PE and boys with Health and Social Care

Question 6

(GASC) Gendered Career opportunities

Answer 6

Employment highly gendered, jobs sex-typed
women most likely to be in service sector jobs, or personal services like cleaning or nannying
affects ideas about what subjects are correct for their jobs, eg why vocational subjects more gender specific
AO3 - career choices very class based