gender and subject choice Flashcards
As and A levels?
boys are more likely to choose subjects such as physics and maths whereas girls choose subjects such as sociology and languages.
What did the institute of physics find ?
Students who are girls have been ‘stubbornly consistent at around 20% fro over 20 years
gender role socialisation in school.
bryne
teachers encourage boys to be tough and show initiative and not to be weak and or behave feminine. Girls are taught be tidy, helpful, clean and tidy
gender domains
ross
children’s expectations of adults shape their beliefs about gender domains.
The tasks they see as for males or females,.
Fixing a care is seen as male territory and looking after children is seen as female territory
Murphy state about how different genders complete same tasks.
Girls and guys pay attention to different details even tackling the same tasks. In general, girls focus on more on how people feel whereas boys focus on how things are made and work.
Gendered subject images?
kelly
-science teachers are more likely to be men
- examples in textbooks are more likely to be boys
-Boys monopolise the apparatus and dominate the lab as if it is theirs.
single sex schools?
Make less traditional subject choices. Leonard found compared to pupils in mixed schools girls in girls schools were more likely to take maths and science a level subjects whereas boys in boys schools were more likely to take essay based subjects.
how did the physics study support leonards study?
girls in singles sex schools were 2.4x more likely to take A - level physics than those in mixed schools.
Why do boys opt out of non stem subjects
Because such activities fall outside their gender domain are likely to attract a negative response from peers.
what did paechter find?
as girls mainly see sport as mainly apart of the male gender domain and girls who are sporty have to cope with an image that contradicts the conventional female stereotype.
why is peer pressure important?
it is a powerful influence on gender identity and how pupils see themselves in relation to particular subject choices so that girls pressured to avoid subjects such as physics.
gender career opportunities
Employment is highly gendered. Women are concentrated to a narrow range of occupations. Over half of women’s employment falls under 4 categories clerical, secretarial, personal services and cleaning.
Gender vocational choice and class?
Many working class girls in fuller’s study had ambitions to go into jobs such as childcare or hair care and beauty this reflected their working-class habitus.
double standards
Lees identifies a double standard of sexual morality in which boys boats about their own sexual exploits but call girls if she does the same or if she dresses or speaks in certain way. An example of patriarchal ideology that justifies male power and devalues women.
Verbal abuse
‘A rich vocabulary of abuse’ is one of the ways dominant gender and sexual identities are reinforced.
