Gender and education

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Feminist have been highlighting gender inequalities within education since the 1960's,for example:

Gendered language- usually, school text books tend to use "he", "him" and "his" when referring to a person or people, this results in women feeling invisible or downgraded.

Gendered roles- most school texbooks portray women as having traditional stereotypical roles such as mothers or housewives.

Gender stereotypes- people found that in reading schemes, for example in the 1970s showed:
. Boys being presented as more adventurous than girls
. Boys being physically stronger
. Boys having more choices
. Girls being more interested in domestic matters

Nowadays girls actually out-perform boys in nearly every subject area whereas boys used to outperform girls in most subject area, feminists might believe that this could be due to the fact that boys and girls are treated more equally compared to before. Some people might even think the discrimination has been completely turned around and now girls are actually treated better than boys.