Marxist feminists

• Only 40.6& of girls from working class families achieved a A*-C in GCSE (2013)
• 67.5% of girls from middle class families achieved a A*-C in GCSE (2013)
• Symbolic capital is how working class girls gain status, by constructing feminine identities, often clashing with the school
• Hyper-Heterosexual feminine identities are what working class girls invest time into and teachers view this as these girls priorities rather then education, when that may not always be the case
• Boyfriends allow working class girls to gain symbolic capital, however leave them less time to work on school
• Being "loud" is what working class girls are viewed as when being outspoken/assertive
• Working class girls face a dilemma, either gain symbolic capital or educational capital
• Evans - "Successful" working class girls


  Studied 21 working class girls from a girls comprehensive sixth form in south London
• Evans - "Successful" working class girls


  Found these girls viewed education as a way out and wanted to go to university for family, however feared debt and wanted to go to one close by