SOC224H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Stereotype, Girl Power, Labeling Theory
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Gender and education: inequalities are arrayed across class, race, and gender, unlike with ses, disparities related to gender (and race) have changed over, what are the patterns, we"ve seen major gains in women. Contemporary research: sadker: didn"t we solve this problem years ago? , no, its still an issue. Are single- gender schools a solution: single sex school are built on the idea that boys and girls are di erent and they learn di erent, 1. No scienti c evidence to support the claim that boys and girls brains are substantially di erent, especially in a way that a ects learning: 2. Limited, problematic research on single gender school: 4. Is there actually a problem: men and women both seeing gains, ignore a crisis only some boys are falling behind, not all boys. And these are boys from the working class backgrounds: we have to looks at gender in terms of class and race.
