Sharpe (1976, 1994) - "Just like a girl study"

• Sharpe completed her first studies in 1976, and her second studies in 1994
• Sharpe's (1976) examined the aspirations of working-class girls and found that their main focus was on love, marriage, and family
• Sharpe (1976) completed her survey which concluded the female identity primarily revolves around love, marriage and husbands
• Sharpe (1994) found that there has been a change in girl's priorities from love, marriage & husbands in 1976, to jobs, career and being able to support themselves
• Sharpe (1994) still found that girls were expected to undertake 'women's work' (e.g. health & clerical work) despite increasing structural employment & available training schemes; due to this expectation girls had little incentive to achieve high educational standards
• A Media Representation to show Sharpe’s (1994) study and how females prioritise jobs & career is the female scientists Kamala in the Netflix Show “Never Have I Ever”, who is the only female in the male-dominated field to show how she wants to support herself & values her job & career