girls external overachieve

• External factors in girl achievement


  • Rise in feminism
  • Socialisation differences
  • Mcrobbie still seeing media images of gender stereotypes
• War

  1. Women began to work to replace men's jobs

  2. Women enjoyed it and wanted independence
• when was Equal Pay Acthow did that help


  1970- women are trying for carrears as they know they can achieve the same pay
• when was the Equality Act


  1988
• why did women start to get qualification

  They worked hard as they could achieve
• what is the Glass ceiling

  Women can see the jobs but can't get to it
• Changes in family


  • Contraception
  • Divorce (divorce reform act)
  • Single households
  • Single parents
  • Decline in stigma for women's roles
• WHat role model do girls have

  a mother Who works hard and is independent
• what were the Changes in employment

  • Breaking the glass ceiling
• Changing ambition


  In the 1980s many girls wanted to be mothers, in the 1990s it was to be independent
• According to Fuller, women are creators of their own futures
• Girl changing ambitions

  Study of 14-17 year olds found that marriage is central to their life plans
• Trend towards individualism in modern society

  • Independence is valued more
• Class, gender and ambition

  • Reflects the reality of the girls' class position
  • Their limited aspirations reflect the limited job opportunities they perceive as being available to them
• Working class girls

  • More likely to face a precarious position in the labour market
  • More likely to see motherhood as the only viable option for their futures