Gender stereotypes affecting boys' education decisions more than girls'

rabel111 · 2022-01-19T22:26:58+00:00

Nurses, teachers and other female dominiated professions are very well paid.

What the research found was that there is little of nothing being done to encourage boys to enter female dominated professions (like STEM programs for girls).

Unfortunately the female researcher focuses on boys perceptions of gender roles, rather than their preception of anti-male cultures in these professions and universities.

mistralol · 2022-01-19T20:15:49+00:00

Great now they want men to pick subjects that won't pay their own bills.

RingosTurdFace · 2022-01-19T23:01:07+00:00

When women don’t choose STEM subjects, they blame it on sexism and patriarchy, despite it not being the case.

When boys don’t choose teaching and healthcare, I bet they try to blame it on “toxic masculinity”.

tenchineuro · 2022-01-20T00:57:33+00:00

Boys continue to be put off traditionally ‘female’ career paths due to being swayed by gender stereotyping while girls reject stereotypes more readily, new research has found.
The two studies from Abertay University in Dundee and the University of Aberdeen used a Gender Attribution scale to gauge how well children understood gender stereotypes and how likely they were to reject them, as well as analysing what impact stereotypes may have had on their school subject choices.
A total of 294 young people took part in the research, split roughly evenly into two age groups of 9-11-year-olds and 13-15-year-olds.
The first study involved participants being asked to rate whether males or females would be more suited to a series of school subjects and job roles, and also being asked what ‘most people’ would think about these.
In the second study, participants were also asked to select which subjects they intended to choose or had already chosen to study at school, based on a list of eight traditionally masculine subjects (Physics, Biology, Chemistry, PE, Practical woodworking, Computing science, Graphic communication, IT) and eight traditionally feminine subjects (French, German, Spanish, Italian, Music, Drama, Art, Hospitality: practical cookery).
Across both studies it was revealed that girls rejected gender stereotypes around 50% of the time, in comparison to only around 25% for boys.

I wonder if the boys just picked things they liked?

Expectations for boys have not changed much in the last 50 years, and girls get preferences almost everywhere. It's not surprising that they have expectations in line with what they've seen.

rainbow_bro_bot · 2022-01-20T01:03:33+00:00

"I think the time is right to encourage more men into subjects seen as traditionally feminine to promote true gender equity" -Dr Lara Wood.

But do the "feminine" jobs pay less? That's an important question here.

Our research shows that boys are still less likely to pick subjects that would allow them to enter careers in industries such as art and nursing.

Newsflash- art degrees are completely useless for getting a good paying job (or pretty much any job for that matter).

Title	Gender stereotypes affecting boys' education decisions more than girls'
Author	skellious
Upvotes	44
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Date	January 19, 2022 7:57 PM UTC (4 years ago)
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