Gender differences in achievement

• What is the extereal factors for girls achieving?

  • Feminisation
  • Changes to women employment
  • Changing ambitions
  • Changing families
• feminism?

  • movement for change - women vote
  • sex discrimination Act
  • lead to girls having more encouragement to do well as they are more opportunities for them to do
• changes to women’s employment?

  • Equal pay act ( 1970) Sex discrimation Act
  • Changes in the law gives girls encouragement due to more equally
  • Lead to more women begin paid in employment
• changes to girls ambitions?

  • sharper tell us the ambitions change form 1970s to 1990s
  • 1970s = give brith , marriage have a families
  • 1990s = able to have jobs , careered and supporting themselves
• Internal factors?


  • Teaches attention
  • Role model
  • Feminisation : swell
• subject choice ?


  • canalisation
  • gendered careers opportunities
  • peer pressure
  • gender subjects images