Differential Educational Achievement: Gender (external factors)

Found that girls are socialised into a 'bedroom culture' which in turn makes them favoured in schools as the 'ideal pupil'

• Sue Sharpe
• Diane Reay
• Beck and Beck-Gernsheim
• McRobbie

Highlighted how the growing service sector has created more 'feminised' career opportunities for women

• Sue Sharpe
• Beck and Beck-Gernsheim
• Mitsos and Browne
• McRobbie

Found that independence is highly regarded in society in order to get recognition and status

• Sue Sharpe
• Beck and Beck-Gernsheim
• Mitsos and Browne
• McRobbie

Found that working class girls' ambitions were more limited and sometimes saw motherhood as the only way to achieve security.

• Sue Sharpe
• Diane Reay
• Mitsos and Browne
• McRobbie

Interviewed girls about their career ambitions in the 1970s and 90s and found that girls had become increasingly ambitious, aiming for high professions such as doctors and solicitors.

• Sue Sharpe
• Diane Reay
• Beck and Beck-Gernsheim
• McRobbie