Using Material from Item a and Elsewhere, Examine the Reasons Why Females Now Tend to Achieve More Than Males in the Education System.

Using material from item A and elsewhere, examine the reasons why females now tend to achieve more than males in the education system.

At the modern era in general girls are now performing better than the boys in education which contrasts the trend that used to be in the past 100 years in which boys seemed to perform better than the girls. This sign of this unbalance of the trend started to emerge during the early 1990’s. There are a lot of reasons for why this is the case now and to answer this question I will be using views from sociologists for why girls are outperforming the boys in education.

The first view that tries to explain why Boys are underperforming in education than girls is the view “Boys Falling Behind”. This view suggests that it is not much that girls are just achieving better than before but there is a “Problem” with boys and education which need to be addressed. The main reason to the view is that males are developing less positive attitudes towards education than females which was stated by Barber (1994). This attitude is signified in various ways such as lower work rates and signs of disaffection such as “increased truancy” and “behaviour problems”. This is suggested to be caused by Male peer groups who tend to develop less positive attitudes towards education and which can also create peer group pressure so that a individual on the peer group is pressured to gain a negative attitude towards education because they don’t want to be seen and be treated as different or to been seen as a threat to the group which may lead to conflict or maybe bullying to that individual thus they are forced to that way of life. Askew and Ross (1988) argue that the socialization of boys leads them to attach little importance of academic work and they suggest to increase male performance in school schools require to provide workshops for the underachieving males and encourage them to talk more openly and honestly. In 1994 a TV show panorama drew on an American...