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gender and subject choice - Coggle Diagram
gender and subject choice
gender role socialisation
from an early age, boys and girls are dressed differently, given different toys, and encouraged to take part in different activities
girls and boys develop different tastes in reading
elwood :
boys read hobby books and information texts, while girls are more likely to read stories
explains why boys prefer sciences and why girls prefer subjects like english
gender domains
tasks and activities that boys and girls see as male or female 'territory'
children are more confident when engaging in tasks that they see as part of their own gender domain
murphy :
found that boys and girls pay attention to different details even when tackling the same task
girls focus more on how people feel, whereas boys focus on how things are made and work - explaining why girls choose humanities and arts subjects while boys choose sciences
gendered subject images
science is seen as a boys' subject because ; science teachers are more likely to be men, textbooks often draw on boys
group work is favoured by girls, so subjects which have little of this means its off-putting to girls
single-sex schooling
pupils who attend single-sex schools tend to hold less stereotyped subject images and make less traditional subject choices
boys in boys' schools were more likely to take english and languages
gender identity and peer pressure
boys and girls may apply pressure to an individual if they disapprove of his or her choice
paechter :
found that because pupils see sport as mainly within the male domain, girls who are 'sporty' have to cope with an image that contradicts the conventional female stereotype
no peer pressure from the opposite sex may explain why girls in single-sex schools are more likely to choose traditional boys' subjects
gendered career opportunities
women are concentrated in a narrow range of occupations
jobs tend to be sex-typed - women's job often involve work similar to that performed by housewives like care work
affecting boys and girls ideas about what kinds of jobs are possible or acceptable