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Do differences in gender socialisation within the family group translate into educational differences and work role differences or
Do changes in the workplace and education system "filter down" to the family group, producing differences in the gender socialisation process? ...
In the present, however, it is difficult to see how the recent and fairly rapid changes in overall female performance can be simply traced-back to primary gender socialisation. ...
Finally, however, the above suggests one way in which primary gender socialisation may influence the educational process (and, by extension, differences in levels of achievement) and that is in terms of a gendered curriculum. ... Some subjects becoming seen as male, some as female and some as gender neutral. ... As Taylor et al ("Sociology In Focus", 1996), for example, note:
"The 1902 Education Act made domestic subjects such as cookery and needlework compulsory for girls but not for boys…During the 20th century…the tradition of girls doing home economics and boys woodwork and metalwork has been largely replaced by technology for all pupils. ... They are taught, as part of the secondary socialisation process in schools, that they are the equal of boys and that their eventual achievement will be on merit (that is, girls are not actively discriminated against - although there is evidence of passive forms of gender discrimination). ...
As a female, girls are not expected to enter areas of the curriculum (and by extension the workforce) associated with masculine gender characteristics. ...
Although this theory explains why some boys and girls take certain types of subject, the fact that not all boys and girls stick to gender appropriate subjects indicates that the theory cannot fully explain the gendered curriculum.
Approximate Word count = 1357
Approximate Pages = 5.4
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