Girls education

Question 1

Give some examples of external factors that effect girls education? (4)

Answer 1

• feminism
• changes in the family
• changes in women’s employment/equal opportunity
• girls changing ambitions

Question 2

Give some examples of internal factors that affect women’s education? (4)

Answer 2

• policies in school
• GCSE and corsework
• positive role models
• teacher attention

Question 3

How does feminism affect women’s education?

Answer 3

feminism showed abilities of women and aspired girls but now girls were given the same opportunities, however at schools senior management was predominately males

Question 4

how does changes in the family affect women’s education?

Answer 4

• families income affects children’s happiness and concentration
• divorce causes anxiety, causes struggle to manage time etc
• girls in single parent families are more determined and push themselves
• children with 1 or 0 parents are more likely to get suspended

Question 5

How does changes in women’s employment/equal opportunities affect girls education?

Answer 5

• more women are doing better paid jobs so therefore girls push themselves in school and have higher ambitions
• women’s can work more which meant they could earn more, so they concentrated more
  HOWEVER
  men still still hold the higher positions

Question 6

How does girls ambitions affect women’s education?

Answer 6

Women are starting to have ambitions so they are able to support themselves rather than relying on a man

Question 7

How does policies in school affect women’s education?

Answer 7

• the National curriculum was introduced in 1988 allowing subjects to be available for both genders
• policies such as GIST (Girls Into Science and Tech) and WISE (Women In Science and Engineering)

Question 8

How does GCSE and coursework affect women’s education?

Answer 8

• Girls were generally better at coursework because they are better organised
• they tend to spend more of their time working or revising, take more care with presentations and meet deadlines on time
• oral exams have been introduced when females excel as they have better language skills

Question 9

How does positive role models affect women’s education?

Answer 9

• there are more female teachers in school than male

- schools bring in more female role models to encourage girls whether their ambitions are traditional or not

Question 10

How does teacher attention affect women’s education?

Answer 10

• teachers would encourage/pay more attention to boys because girls were more organised
• white boys were picked on as there was a lower expectation