Gender Differences in Aspirations and Attainment (eBook, ePUB)

A Life Course Perspective
Redaktion: Schoon, Ingrid

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What is the role of parents, peers and teachers in shaping school experiences and informing the career choice of males and females? Does the school context matter, and to what extent do educational experiences influence young people's self-concept, values and their outlook to the future? Do teenage aspirations influence later outcomes regarding educational attainment and the assumption of work and family related roles? These questions and more are addressed in the chapters of this book, following lives over time and in context. The book is both innovative and timely, moving the discussion of gender inequalities forward, providing a dynamic and contextualized account of the way gendered lives evolve. Chapters address the role of institutional structures and the wider socio-historical context in helping young men and women to realize their ambitions. A unique feature is the longitudinal perspective, examining the role of multiple interlinked influences on individual life planning and attainment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316053744
• Artikelnr.: 49267924

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: Conceptualising gender differences in aspirations and
attainment: a life course perspective Ingrid Schoon and Jacquelynne S.
Eccles; Part II. The Early School Years: 1. Peer influences on gender
differences in educational aspiration and attainment Richard A. Fabes,
Sarah Hayford, Erin Pahlke, Carlos Santos, Kristina Zosuls, Carol Lynn
Martin and Laura D. Hanish; 2. Beginning school transition and academic
achievement in mid-elementary school: does gender matter? Marlis Buchmann
and Irene Kriesi; 3. Gender differences in teachers' perceptions and
children's ability self-concepts Katja Upadyaya and Jacquelynne Eccles; 4.
Emerging gender differences in times of multiple transitions Jennifer
Symonds, Maurice Galton and Linda Hargreaves; Part III. Career Planning
during Adolescence: 5. What shall I do with my life? Motivational,
personal, and contextual factors in mastering the transition to high school
David Weiss, Bettina Wiese and Alexandra Freund; 6. Gendered happiness gap?
Adolescents' academic wellbeing pathways Katariina Salmela-Aro; 7.
Uncertainty in educational and career aspirations: gender differences in
young people Leslie Morrison Gutman, Ricardo Sabates and Ingrid Schoon; 8.
The challenges facing young people in apprenticeships Allison Fuller and
Lorna Unwin; Part IV. Choosing a Science Career; 9. Do teenagers want to
become scientists? A comparison of gender differences in attitudes,
expectations and academic skill across twenty-nine countries John Jerrim
and Ingrid Schoon; 10. Predicting career aspirations and university majors
from academic ability and self-concept: a longitudinal application of the
Internal-External frame of reference model Philip Parker, Gabriel Nagy,
Ulrich Trautwein and Oliver Lüdtke; 11. Does priority matter? Gendered
patterns of task-values across subject domains Angela Chow and Katariina
Salmela-Aro; 12. Gender differences in personal aptitudes and motivational
beliefs for achievement in and commitment to math and science fields
Ming-Te Wang and Sarah Kenny; 13. What happens to high-achieving females
after high school? Gender and persistence on the postsecondary STEM
pipeline Lara Perez-Felkner, Sarah-Kathryn McDonald and Barbara Schneider;
14. Young people, gender, and science: does an early interest lead to a job
in SET? A longitudinal view from the BHPS youth data Anna Bagnoli, Dieter
Demey and Jackie Scott; 15. Motivational affordances in school versus work
contexts advantage different individuals: a possible explanation for
domain-differential gender gaps Jutta Heckhausen; Part V. Longer Term
Consequences of Early Experiences: 16. The life course consequences of
single-sex and co-educational schooling Alice Sullivan and Heather Joshi;
17. Pathways to educational attainment in middle adulthood: the role of
gender and parental educational expectations Miia Bask, Laura
Ferrer-Wreder, Katariina Salmela-Aro and Lars Bergman; 18. How gender
influences objective career success and subjective career satisfaction: the
impact of self concept and of parenthood Andrea Abele; Part VI. The Role of
Context: 19. Gender differences in attainment across generations from a
historical perspective Anne McMunn, Elizabeth Webb, Mel Bartley, David
Blane and Gopal Netuveli; 20. Gender inequality by choice? The effects of
aspirations on gender inequality in wages Silke Aisenbrey and Hannah
Brückner; 21. Comparing young peoples' beliefs and perception of gender
equality across twenty-eight different countries Bryony Hoskins and Jan
Germen Janmaat.