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Gender and Education
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Gender and identity
Teachers and discipline - Mac an Ghaill 1996 found that male teachers told boys off for behaving like girls and teased them for doing worse than girls in tests. Ignored boys verbal abuse of girls and blamed the girls for attracting it
The male gaze - Mac an Ghaill 1996 'The male Gaze' the way in which male pupils and teachers see girls as sexual objects and judge their appearance
Male peer groups - Mac an Ghaill 1994 working class 'macho' lads were dismissive of other working class boys who worked hard, labelling them as 'dickhead achievers'
Double standards - Lee 1993 identifies a double standard of sexual morality - boys boast about sexual experiences but girls are 'slags'
Verbal abuse - dominant gender and sexual identities are reinforced. Lee 1993 boys called girls 'slags' if they were sexually available and 'drags' if they weren't. Boys use name calling to put girls down
Female peer groups - Ringrose 2013 being popular is crucial to a girls identity. Tension between maintaining friendships with each other and competing for boys
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General
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Primary school - Year 1, girls scored higher in all their tests (QCA survey of 7000 children), 62% of girls could concentrate without supervision for 10 minutes, only 49% of boys could. 56% of girls could write their own name correctly, only 42% of boys could.
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Sue Sharpe 'just like a girl' - study of WC girls in London shows change in priorities. In the 1970's it was marriage, children and then a career but by the 1990's their priorities were education, jobs and independence.
Dale Spender 1983 - 'Invisible Women'. Schools reinforce gender inequality in wider society, boys received over 60% of teachers time, boys are respected and taken seriously and the classroom prepares girls for male domination
McRobbie - women get presented in a certain way. Jackie Magazine - how to do hair, makeup, how to keep your boyfriend happy, etc
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