gendered subject images

• what do gendered images affect?

  -who wants to chose the subject
• Kelly


  -argues science seen as boys' subject because:

  > science teachers more likely to be men

  > examples used by teachers & in textbooks often on boys' interests

  > boys monopolise apparatus & dominate laboratory
• Colley


  -computer studies is seen as masculine:

  > involves working with machines - male domain

  > way it's taught is off-putting for females - abstract tasks with formal teaching style