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1
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Dewar (1990)

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Male students would call girls ‘lesbian’ or ‘butch if interested in sports.

2
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Paechter (1998)

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Found that because pupils see sport as mainly within the male gender domain.

3
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Fuller (gender, vocational choice and class)

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working-class girls had ambitions to go into jobs such as child care or hair and beauty.

4
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Leonard

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Girls in single-sex schools to take maths and science A levels.
Boys in boys schools were more likley to take English and languages.

5
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A Level Exam Candidates: Physics

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21% F

6
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A Level Exam Candidates: Maths

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39% F

7
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A Level Exam Candidate: Computing

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7% F

8
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A Level Exam Candidate: French

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69%

9
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A Level Exam Candidate: Sociology

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75%

10
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A Level Exam Candidate: Drama

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69%

11
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Norman

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From an early age:

  • boys are dressed differently
  • given different toys
  • encouraged to take part in different activities
12
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Murphy and Elwood

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Gender stereotypes lead to different subject choices

13
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Byrne

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Teachers encourage boys to be tough and show initiative and not be weak or behave like sissies.

14
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Colley

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computer studies:

  • It involves working with machines (part of the male gender domain
  • The way it is taught off-putting to females
  • Tasks tend to be abstract and teaching styles formal, with few opportunities for group work.
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Kelly

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Science:

  • Science teachers are more likely to be men.
  • The examples teachers us often draw on boys’ rather than girls’ interests.
  • Boys monopolise the apparatus and dominate the laboratory, acting as if it is ‘theirs’