Feminists

• What is the main role of education in a patriarchal society?


  education serves in the need of men and presses women by teaching them their traditional role in society at an early age
• what are the different types of feminists?


  liberal, radical, marxist, intersectional
• what are the 3 arguments all the feminists have in common?

  traditional patriarchal norms and values in society disadvantage girls, whereby they are transmitted through gendered language, gendered roles and a lack of women in the curriculum
• Marxist feminists Heaten and Lawson?


  believe education reinforces gendered roles, especially between 1960-1970, where it is perpetuated through the restricted access in certain subjects and pictures of women being housewives and mothers in books. This encourages them to be a reserve labour force, as Benston once suggested.
• Marxist feminists - the glass ceiling?


  this contributes to wider societal gender inequalities as women are restricted to care-based jobs that are low in skill and pay. this increases the gender pay gap.
• What do liberal feminists generally believe?


  believe gender inequalities mainly persist in the workplace and the economy, so by narrowing the gender divide gap, the glass ceiling that Fem-Marxists focus on, breaks
• What do liberal feminists believe, in terms of education?


  the future of the workplace is female because girls are now outperforming boys in education. As a result of this, they break the glass ceiling by occupying traditional male roles such as managers. Thus, their wages increase. This shows a march of progression for female equality in society
• How do liberal feminists criticise education?


  they state that subject choices are still gender heavy, which means that the glass ceiling in traditional patriarchal sectors remains the same. This is due to the hidden curriculum where there is a lack of acknowledgement for female revolutionary studies = society is patriarchal and this is reproduced in all spheres of society as they are restricted from work and bound to the home.
• What do radical feminists typically believe?


  women are exploited and oppressed in society by males curing social marginalisation.
• How does education marginalise girls?


  According to Banyard, girls are sexually harassed in schools due to gender regimes and the hidden curriculum. Girls are often represented as inanimate sexual objects in society and thus are subjected to sexist bullying
• what did Banyard believe about the origins of sexist bullying?


  the normalisation of pornography and gendered language in schools
• what is meant by gendered language?


  women are invisible in education, especially in textbooks. There is little regard of female pronouns which downgrades women and their career aspirations further
• What do radical feminists acknowledge?

  a recent moral panic in education where girls are outperforming boys. This is due to patriarchal power relations breaking. Such educational structures respond by favouring male achievement rather then female achievement, explaining why boys are no slowly improving again