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Closing the Gender Gap: Postwar Education and Social Change
Contributor(s): Arnot, Madeleine (Author), David, Miriam E. (Author), Weiner, Gaby (Author)
ISBN: 0745618839     ISBN-13: 9780745618838
Publisher: Polity Press
OUR PRICE:   $79.09  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: November 1999
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Annotation: The education gender gap is closing. Since the 1980s examination results have changed dramatically, as girls have "caught up" and, in some cases, overtaken boys. Through an analysis of the postwar transformation in British economic, social and cultural life, this important book provides valuable insights into how and why this unprecedented change has taken place.


In particular, the book focuses on the welfare state and the education reforms under Margaret Thatcher which encouraged this momentum for change despite her personal efforts to re-instil Victorian educational values. These reforms, the authors argue, coupled with the women's movement, re-shaped girls' and boys' identities and educational choices irrevocably, but not necessarily in the same or complementary ways.

"Closing the Gender Gap" will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students in education, sociology and gender studies.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Education | Educational Psychology
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory
- Social Science | Women's Studies
Dewey: 370.820
LCCN: 99025731
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.68" W x 9.26" (0.94 lbs) 208 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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Publisher Description:
Undergraduate and postgraduate students in education, sociology and gender studies, as well as the general reader with an interest in education or gender.