Gender Inequality Flashcards
( education ) the hidden curriculum and attitudes of teachers negatively influences subject choices
Skelton
( education ) science regarded as a boys subject
- dominate classrooms, textbooks contain cars/ football
Kelly
( education) subject choices are negatively influenced by perception of gender roles, subject preferences and learning environment
Colley
( education ) wc lads are fatalistic about their future, leading them to low status, low paid manual labour jobs
- anti school attitude, no value in achievement
Willis
( education ) teachers treat males and females differently, causing inequality for boys
- too lenient on ‘laddish’ behaviour ( disservice leading to lack of achievement )
- hard on girls who are seen ti break school rules + gender norms ( doubly deviant )
Mitsos and browne
( workplace ) horizontal and vertical segregation in the workplace, disadvantaging women
- theme parks ( males= ride operators, females = catering)
Adkins
( workplace ) in uk parliament men outnumber women by 4-1
- 18/108 high court judges are females
Laura Bates ( everyday sexism project )
( workplace ) ‘crisis of masculinity’ deindustrialisation and feminisation of labour market lead to increased male unemployment
Mac an Ghail
( workplace ) working class ‘lads’ fatalistic about their futures
- fathers footsteps = low status, low paid basic manual labour
Willis
( media ) conducted content analysis of womens magazines
- concluded they are based around ‘ cult of femininity’ ( promotes excellence is achieved through family, marriage and appearance )
Ferguson
( media ) media presents masculinity as dominant and femininity as subordinate
Billington
( media ) narrow range of role for women lead to their ‘ symbolic annihilation’ in media
- phenomenon that mass media omit certain groups that are not socially valued
Tuchaman
( media ) film shots fixate in womens body - male gaze
- women in media are viewed through the eye of heterosexual men
- women = passive objects for make desire
Mulvey
( media ) black Afro Caribbean boys turned to rapper role models ( lack of father figure ) - from matriarchal background
- leads to deviant anti school subculture
Sewell
( media ) media especially Hollywood films and computer games transmit the view that masculinity is based on strength, aggression, competition and violence
- all biologically determined = natural goal
Eastthorpe
