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Gender and achievement - Coggle Diagram
Gender and achievement
External
Changes in women’s employment
Pay gap halved since 1975
More employment opportunities
Motivator for girls
Changes in law shave given women more working rights (sex discrimination act)
Feminism
Challenges traditional stereotypes
Affected girls ambitions (family & career)
McRobbie- magazines feature women as independent and assertive
Changes in family
Rising divorce rates teaches girls to not rely on men
Rise of single parent mothers taking on role of breadwinner acts as role model
Internal
Equality policy
GIST and WISE encourage girls to excel in science and tech
National curriculem means boys and girls do same subjects
Teacher attention
Teachers focus on boys means girls benfit
Swann- boys group discussion, girls work
Francis- boys disciplined harsher
GCSE and coursework
Mitosis and Browne- girls concentrate and work better and spend more time on homework
Positive role models
Increase in female heads and shortage of male primary teachers