Gender external

• impacts of feminism


  • help women no longer be strictly bound to the mother/housewife role
  • Sharpe (1976-94): girls priorities change from marriage & children to career & independence
  • McRobbie (1994): women are now faced with more positive roles in the media
• changes in the family

  • increase in cohabitation
  • decline in birth & marriage rates
  • decrease family size
  • more time and freedom to achieve further education
• women's employment

  • Francis (2001): due to increase employment opportunities, girls are ambitious and aim for high professions
  • Webb: increase of women in employment and decrease in pay gap between genders.

  results in more women breaking through the glass ceiling effect

  • 1975 sex discrimination act
  • mitosis and Browne(1998): growing economy has created more female careers such as healthcare.