External factors - GENDER within females

Question 1

Impact of feminism

Answer 1

Impact of feminism
-gave them confidence to work outside the home
- WISE, GIST leading to STEM
- changed girls ambitions

Question 2

Changes in family

Answer 2

-more LPFs due to an increase in divorce rates
- girls have to prepare for breakups and already know divorce is likely to happen and in the end having to become financially independent
- leads to them having higher qualifications and encourages them to take it more seriously
- gives them motivation to do better so they can support themselves

Question 3

Changes in womens employement

Answer 3

• laws - 1970s equal pay act which tells women they are worth just as much as men
• these laws made women feel valued in the workplace which would encourage and motivate them as they know it would actually get these women somewhere
• girls literacy levels - “bedroom culture”

Question 4

Feminism

Answer 4

• gave girls confidence which changed girls ambitions and encouraged them to try harder in school

Family - knew it led to divorce so would become single- knew they would need to be financially dependent which led them to try harder in schools

Workplace - new laws came about which meant women were valued in the workplace so it motivated them to work harder

Question 5

Symbolic capital within girls

Answer 5

• had hypersexual feminine identity
• cared more about boyfriends and being loud

-saw it was masculine to want to work hard and do good and their main aim was to get a family so they didn’t neccesarily see a point in doing homework etc