Gender

Question 1

Role models.

Answer 1

Over the last 20 years more women are in high positions like head teacher leading a role model for girls to look up to in school boosting achievement

Question 2

Coursework being introduced

Answer 2

introduced in 1988 Gorald noted that the gap in achievement between genders during 1979 and 1989 where clear until coursework came in and female achievement in education skyrocketed

Question 3

League tables

Answer 3

Slee points out that girls make the schools seem more favourable due to girls getting better grades and with boys having an exclusion rate 4x bigger

Question 4

Shift in policy’s

Answer 4

National curriculum allowed both boys and girls to study the same topics, Boaler believed this removal of barriers was the key reason for a shift in achievement

Question 5

Classroom Attention

Answer 5

Boys get more however it is negative allowing girls to receive more positive attention creating an SFP allowing for a greater Achievement

Question 6

Liberal feminism Evaluation

Answer 6

they celebrate the progress made however they also believe that more can be done. Things like equal policy’s, more role models and less sexist attitudes

Question 7

Radical Feminism eval (FemNazis)

Answer 7

They understand that achievement has shifted however they believe this is due to a “spite in patriarchy” rather then personal achievement. they use bs facts like 1/3 16-18yr old girls said they have experienced unwanted touching in school

Question 8

Sue Sharpe

Answer 8

Shift in values -
Marridge/Family -> Education Career

Question 9

Tony Sewell

Answer 9

Lack of male role models
Feminisation of education

Question 10

ann oakley

Answer 10

children learn gender roles through toys at a young age later dictating their subject choices

Question 11

Archer

Answer 11

WC girls underachieve in education even though they value it due to things like Nike identity’s and the ideal pupil clashing with the working class identity

Question 12

Postmodernists

Answer 12

Believes that that gender alone does not explain achievement

Question 13

Changing girls ambitions

Answer 13

Decline in trad roles - Stay at home dads and duel earning family’s.

Women understand the need for a good education to gain independence through their own finances - Genshiem

Question 14

Changes in women employment

Answer 14

Mitsos and Browne 1988 highlight how the economy has opened up more job opportunity’s to women e.g. health care and teaching.

These changes allow for girls to see a future more then as a house wife or a mother but within a strong and respected career

Question 15

Eval of External Factors

Answer 15

Glass ceiling
a socially constructed barrier blocking women from achieveing high status jobsfi

Pay gap
Men are payed more for the same job then a women is

Myth of meritocracy
the idea that success is based off of individual merit is a False ideal

Question 16

Literacy (Boys)

Answer 16

DfCSF (2007) Argue that the reason for a divide in achievement and why boys underachieve is due to girls reading at a young age as this is seen as a feminine Trait boys tend to avoid this

Question 17

Lack of male primary school teachers (boys)

Answer 17

this lack of a primary school role model may be what makes boys believe that learning is more “ girley”

Question 18

Over estimation of ability

Answer 18

Barber 1996 believed that boys hold to much of an ego in education believing they are better then everyone else (potentially due to a patriarchal society) this over confidence creates a lack of preparation for exams and class work

Question 19

ethnocentric curriculum

Answer 19

BAME students may be put off subjects like English and history due to the focus on white culture