Subject Choice and Occupational Aspirations among Pupils at Girls' Schools

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Author	Francis, Becky Hutchings, Merryn Archer, Louise Amelling, Lindsay
Copyright Year	2003
Description	Journal: Pedagogy, Culture & Society Various studies have found that British girls' curriculum subject preferences and future aspirations have changed and diversified in recent years. Other work has suggested that girls educated in single-sex schools might have a different (perhaps less gender-stereotypical) experience of education in comparison with their contemporaries at co-educational schools. This article draws on a study of the preferences of girls in English single-sex schools to explore these issues of subject choice and occupational aspiration further. It is argued that, like girls in mixed-sex secondary schools, single-sex schoolgirls' subject preferences have become more diverse and less gender-stereotypical than was the case twenty years ago. But where single-sex schoolgirls might have been expected to rate maths and science more highly than their counterparts in mixed-sex schools, the reverse was the case. Our findings support the argument that girls are now significantly more academically focused and ambitious for their future occupations than they were twenty years ago. However, we argue that a gender dichotomy remains evident in the types of future occupation chosen by girls.
Related Links	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14681360300200182?needAccess=true
Ending Page	442
Page Count	18
Starting Page	425
ISSN	14681366
e-ISSN	17475104
DOI	10.1080/14681360300200182
Journal	Pedagogy, Culture & Society
Issue Number	3
Volume Number	11
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2003-10-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Journal: Pedagogy, Culture & Society Cultural Studies Womens Studies Stereotypical
Content Type	Text
Subject	Education Cultural Studies