Gender and Subject Choice
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- Gender and Subject Choice
- Gender Role Socialisation
- The process of learning behavior expected of males and females in society
- Norman (1988) notes that from an early age girls and boys are dressed differently, given different toys and encouraged to take part in different activities
- As a result they gained different reading tastes. Murphy and Elwood (1998) found that boys read hobby/informative books whereas girls read stories, this lead them into different subjects
- Gender Domains
- Browne and Ross (1991) argue children's beliefs about gender domains shape their expectation of adults
- Children are more confident in tasks they see as their domain, for example girls are understanding of feelings whereas boys want to know how things work
- Gender Subject Images
- Kelly argues that science is a boy's subject because; science teachers are likely to be men, examples and textbooks often draw on boys interests and boys monopolize apparatus
- Cooley argues computer science is a boy's subjects because; it involves working with machines and the way it is taught puts girls off
- Single Sex Schooling - Less stereotypical vies of subject so the students make less traditional choices
- Leanord (2006) found that compared with a mixed school, in an all-girls school they were more likely to take maths and science
- Gender Identity and Peer Pressure
- Our peers can influence subject choice because people don't want to be ridiculed for taking a (for example) feminine subject when you are a boy
- Dewar (1990) found that girls who take sports are often labeled as lesbians or butch
- Gendered Career Options
- Jobs tend to be stereotyped as men's or women's, women's jobs tend top be similar to childcare and nursing
- For example boys believe nursery nurses are only women so will less likely take a course in childcare
- Gender Role Socialisation
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