Gender

• reasons why girls achieve well is because: first priority is family, lots of job opportunities for girls, greater coursework to achieve more, more equal opportunities.
• reasons why boys underachieve: they get sent out, lose motivations seeing girls do better, priorities are different, School seen as feminine. negative labels
• Becky Francis: Boys hear that girls do better and give up
• Sue Sharpe: 1970s girls wanted to get married and properties were different but 1990s girls priorities changed to being independent and work hard so they achieve more than boys
• McRobbie: says that bedroom culture, where girls read and improve their communication skills but boys go out and do a physical activity
• inside school for gender, subject choice, teachers
• Kelly: scene teachers are more likely to be male, Male images in science books than female scientists.
• Weiner, sexists images which made girls achieve more than boys .
• Gerard: GSCE coursework came into place so made girls do better
• Sewell: boys fall because education has been feminism, school don't do masculine traits, competition and leadership
• Jackson: marketisation gave more competition which made girls do better because of league tables, recruited to better schools because of their good grades.
• Archer: one reason why girls can do bad is that they can think that marriage is better than education
• Epstein: implies that working class gets labelled harassed so they do more manual work