ReviseSociology

Category: Gender

  • The Gender Gap in Education

    In 2022 girls still tend to do better than boys in GCSE, A-levels, BTECs and are much more likely to go to university.

  • The University of Cambridge appoints first female black head of a college

    Jesus College Cambridge recently appointed the first ever black female as its head. This is the first time in British history that either a female or a black person has been the Master of an Oxbridge College. Sonita Alleyne is 51 years old studied Philosophy at Cambridge 30 years ago and went on to establish…

  • Outline three reasons why girls are less likely to choose science subjects than boys (6 marks) 

    This is a possible 6 mark question for the AQA’s 7192/1 Education and Theory with Methods Paper – The technique to answering such a question is to think of it in terms of 3 lots of 1 + 1 – you need 3 identifiers and then three developments Possible identifiers Teacher’s sexist ideas channeling girls…

  • Gender and Education: Good Resources

    Useful links to quantitative and qualitative research studies, statistics, researchers, and news paper articles relevant to gender and education. These links should be of interest to students studying A-level and degree level sociology, as well as anyone with a general interest in the relationship between gender, gender identity, differential educational achievement and differences in subject…

  • Do teachers stereotype students according to sex and gender?

    GCSE and A level statistics show us subject choices are very gendered – even in 2017, boys tend to choose typically male subjects and girls tend to choose typically female subjects. Interactionist theory points to teacher stereotyping and labeling as one of the main explanations for these gendered differences in subject choice, but what evidence…

  • Gender and Subject Choice 2017

    Looking at the A level exam entries by gender in 2017 over 90% of people who sat computing were male, compared to only 23% of people who sat sociology A level.   Either click on the above graphic or check out the interactive version here (irritatingly I can’t embed dynamic visuals in a wordpress.com blog,…

  • Should girls be allowed to wear trousers in school?

    Most UK schools have introduced trousers for girls into their uniform codes in the last twenty years, but some continue to ban them and will send home any girl who turns up wearing trousers, at least according to Trousers for All, which campaigns to give girls the option to wear trousers as part of their school uniform.…