gender and subject choice

• gender socialisation and canalisation

  early socialisation shapes children's gender identity
• males


  science, maths, sports, engineering
• females

  health and social, english, drama, art
• females

  passive, creative, emotional , like reading - advantages their ed achievement
• males

  active, closed off, dislike reading - disadvantages ed achievement
• peer pressure

  boys and girls will stick to subjects in their gender domains through the fear of peer abuse
• Norman - the different activities boys and girls take part in as children affect their gender role socialisation
• Murphy and Elwood - bedroom culture 


  girls tend to read more fiction which lead to more expressive subjects, boys read more hobby books which leads to more technical

  subjects
• Browne and Ross 


  gender domains created based around what they see the adults around them doing