Gender: Outside Of School Factors, Why Girls Do Better - Changing Attitudes/opportunities In Wider Society

Question 1

Sharpe

Answer 1

• explore how girls priorities have changed overtime and how this impacts the achievement in education
• Found that there was a change of priorities in the 1970s, sharpes interviews with girls showed their priorities focused on love, marriage, husbands and careers in that order by 1996 sharp found that woman focus more on job career and being able to support themselves
• Sharp also pointed out increased confidence and ambition, education as a route to success and financial independence

Question 2

Francis & Skelton

Answer 2

• argue that girls achievement in school is impacted by future identity, parental pressure, changing attitudes and career focus

Question 3

Beck

Answer 3

• argues that society is moving into an era of late modernity characterised by greater risk and uncertainty and women are at the forefront of this change
• This perspective links to the achievement of girls in school in the following ways: risk of divorce and job loss, financial independence and education as a means to self-sufficiency