By the 1990s Sharpe went back to the same school and interviewed girls again and they had changed their priorities to careers and being able to support themselves by being more dependent rather than relying on a husband. Sue Sharpe has contributed to giving us an understanding of the way girls ambitions have changed, without this people would still assume women would want to grow up and be a housewife; looking after their children and doing domestic labour. A similar research was carried about by Becky Francis who asked girls about their career ambitions in 2001, most girls had
Emma is about young girl in England who is a matchmaker who soon runs into complications when trying to match up her friend. These complications turn into more and more mistakes confusing Emma is confused and matches up those who are wrong for each other, in the end finding a true love for herself. Even though they were 200 years apart, the film Clueless is loosely based off of Emma in the sense that it has similar themes. Clueless and Emma have their minor differences but major similarities in characters, themes of status quo, and themes of social status. Characters in Clueless represent those of the characters in Emma.
The gender gap in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) has been an enduring problem, and new research shows that the gap is widening. Washington Post Op-Ed writer Catherine Rampell discusses one potential reason for this in her article, “Women should embrace the B’s in college to make more later”. The author presents her case based on new research showing that women in fact hate getting B’s. Rampell’s thesis positions that women are selling themselves short by fixating on grades (1). If women’s grades decline in STEM, economics, or other quantitative fields, women often switch majors to pursue more forgiving humanities degrees.
Dominican sex workers use sex, romance, and marriage as a means of turning Sosúa’s sex trade into a site of opportunity and possibility, not just exploitation and domination (Global Woman, Page 168). From the reading, it’s apparent that these women get a sense of empowerment through the sex work they do because it allows them to provide for their families and better their lives. Because these women are willingly migrating to Sosúa to enter the sex industry, I believe that they are creating a sense of independence and partaking in a legitimate form of work, even though it’s considered illegal, but I wonder how independent many of these women truly are. Brenan does a good job of bringing attention to the issue of sex work in the city of Sosúa, and by doing this she directly and indirectly touches on ideas such as emotional labor, the portrayal of women of color as highly sexual, and poorly paid female labor. By focusing specifically on the city of Sosúa where the women are not trafficked and are willingly
Pizan so obviously from the start of her writing, introduces how women should behave (from the perspective of a princess), so that her actions shall be beneficial to her and her husband. By talking about the finances, which is radical, Pizan degrades women in all other aspects. Degrading is used in the sense that she does not promote equality in any other way other than the financial aspect. These women could be considered early feminists if they looked for equality in other things as well not just a specific
A mixture of these factors led to the change in the position of women in society, the increase in equality, especially legally, including the right to vote (legal factor), the increase in educational opportunities (social factor) meant that women chose to educate themselves before starting a family, the increase in work opportunities with laws banning unequal pay and sex discrimination (social/legal factor)and changing attitudes in society meant that it was socially acceptable for women to be employed whereas traditionally the wife would be the housewife and the husband would be the breadwinner and would financially support his family. Recently, the number of people dying has also decreased in the UK as there is an increase in life
Sharpe’s believe this could be because of the changing attitudes of society in general towards women and the impact of feminism. Mitsos and Browne (1998) say that the service sector which is traditionally seen as women’s work has expanded. Employers usually like women in this sector as they have good communication skills and the rise in the employment of women has given girls the incentive to do well at school. Mac and Ghaill claim that the decline in male employment opportunities has led to an ‘Crisis of Masculinity’ as many boys now believe they have a less chance in a getting a proper job. This undermines their motivation and self-esteem therefore they give up on trying to do well in education and have a fatalistic attitude towards it.
Part A: identify and explain two ways in which gender may affect a pupils experience of education (17 marks) Gender plays a big role in experience of education within the school system. One way that it does this is through is that girls valued romance more than education and so this had an impact on these girls as they were performing poorly in school, this was an interview done in the 1970s by the sociologist Sharpe (1976), he later did another interview with another group of girls in the 1990s and he had found out that they were more career orientated and this was said to be because of the different opportunities that these young girls were given due to new school systems, back in the 1970s males were given a larger amount of opportunities
Meanwhile, these advertisements would also mislead the young customers, because the message that advertising sends to the girls is the main qualification for a woman to get a better job or to have a brighter future is the way she looks. Furthermore, in those advertisements and pictures Fair and Lovely are using photo touch-up techniques to justify
In the UK, divorce has become a lot easier for women so more women are escaping an unhappy marriage and choosing to get divorced. The welfare state provides benefits for single parent families, so women are able to support their children on their own. These include child benefits, housing benefits and tax credits. This could encourage women to get divorced, hence leading to an increase in single parent families. Refugees have also been made available for women by the government, which have allowed women to escape domestic violence.