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Gender and education (Internal factors (Coursework favours girls-Intro of…
Gender and education
Internal factors
Educational policies to help girls- There's been attempts to improve the academic performance of girls within education through the introduction of different policies- these policies have all tried to raise the profile of women in education.
Coursework favours girls-Intro of coursework to many subjects has been thought to help girls as girls known to outperform boys in assessed work, e.g. coursework.
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Teacher attitudes- Teachers tend to give boy more attention in classroom due to poor behaviour whereas girls are seen as more positive and regarded as an asset to the school.
Boys given more attention - negative. Girls seen as being positive- creating a female self-fulfilling prophecy.
Marketisation- Boys seen as liability and girls seen as an asset so schools would rather have girls in their school to improve their league table position.
Role models- It's been argued that there are more female role models within schools (female teachers) as well as in the home so education system has been described as being 'feminised'.
Statistics
27,385 males graduated with 1st class degrees.
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16,270 boys opted to study Business Studies at A level.
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How can males dominate?
Access to limited resource- males often try to take the most/best equipment in science or technology lessons.
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The gender gap
Gender gap- the difference between performance and subject choice between males and females within education.
There's a lot of evidence to suggest that girls have opened up a 'gender gap' in educational performance and there's a real problem of 'boys under-achievement'.
Colley
Anne Colley referred to stereotypical trends in subject choice and gender. Males tend to pursue careers in technical or science based subjects whereas females are art/humanities/social science subjects.
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Females
Research has shown that there are 3 main reasons females don't choose to study science, maths and technology.
- Teacher attitudes.
- Parental influence
- Gender role socialisation
Kelly
Science is a masculine subject that's dominated by males. Females may feel intimidated by the males as they feel inferior and therefore don't choose science subjects regardless of their interest in the subject.