Gender And Education Topic 4 Sociology

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Sharpe study 1976 and 1994

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Girls priorities in 1976 husband marriage and family

Girls priorities in 1994 was their own career independence and maybe a relationship afterwards

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Mcrobbie 1994

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Magazines such as Jackie emphasised the importance of marriage

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Changes in the family

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Cohabitation meant less pressure to be married

Same sex families - role models

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Employment opportunities for women Mitsos and Browne

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Highlight how the growing service sector has created more feminised career opportunities

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Webb 2008

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More women are breaking through the glass ceiling effect

Pay gap between women and men has fallen from 30% to 17% since 1975

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Women employment

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Risen from 47% in 1959 to 70% 2007

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Changing in social attitudes

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Post modernism- we are less governed by structural factors in today’s society

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Giddens

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Confluent love meant not restrictive

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Male underachievement decline in manufacturing

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Manufacturing ‘masculine’ jobs have moved abroad and therefore has made male employment less accessible

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Mitsos and Browne 1998

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The crisis of masculinity

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Over estimation in ability

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Barber 1996 found boys tend to over estimate their own ability whilst girls underestimate their own

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Stanworth 1983

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Suggest that boys are more likely to blame lack of effort or teachers for their failure instead of their own lack of ability

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Poor male literacy

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Gender gap is the result of poor literacy amongst males

Reading is feminised

Boys are socialised to be active

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In school factors feminisation of education

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Sewell 2006 argues that education has become feminised and do not mature masculine traits

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Shortage of male primary school teachers

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DFES 2007 16% of primary school teacher are male

Yorugov 2007 39

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Laddish subcultures

Willis 1977

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Wc boys are likely to be called sissie as well as be subject to homophobic harassment

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Positive discrimination

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The raising boys achievement program

The

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Girls underachievement

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Jackson 2006 ladettes

Archer 2011 we glamour role models