Do Girls Make Boys Study? Gender Composition, Gender Role Culture, and Sense of Futility in Flemish Secondary Schools

2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-250
Author(s):  
Mieke Van Houtte ◽  
Wendelien Vantieghem

This study examines whether the gender difference in sense of academic futility is related to the proportion of girls attending a school. We argue that the more progressive gender role culture in schools with a higher proportion of girls might influence especially boys’ sense of futility. Multilevel analyses of data gathered in 2014 from 5,162 second-grade students in 57 secondary schools in Flanders confirm a small but significant gender difference in sense of futility. The more girls at school, the less feelings of futility boys manifest. This impact can be explained by boys’ traditional gender role attitudes. For girls, the impact of gender composition, higher feelings of futility in schools with more girls, is buffered by girls’ progressive gender role attitudes. In schools with more girls, boys display lower levels of futility than girls. Finally, this impact of gender composition can be ascribed to the students’ educational track.

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-311
Author(s):  
Amy Erbe Healy

Abstract Traditional gender role attitudes are often associated with specific religious denominations. However, members of religious denominations are also impacted by other institutions in society. This research uses the European Social Survey to determine how the impact of religious denominations on traditional gender role attitudes varies across welfare regimes. Macro-level analysis examines this relationship with national-level indicators. Religious denomination impacts gender role attitudes, though not uniformly. Public expenditures on social services and working-age cash benefits are negatively related to traditional gender role attitudes, with the strongest impact on attitudes toward men’s right to paid work among Muslims and Eastern Orthodox.


2020 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2094038
Author(s):  
Liat Kulik ◽  
Dan Ramon

The study examined the relationship between a mother’s earning advantage over her husband, and three aspects of the parenting experience: the cognitive aspect (examined through the concept of parental self-efficacy), the emotional aspect (examined through the quality of the relationship with the children), and the behavioral aspect (examined through parental involvement in childcare). The sample included 246 Israeli Jewish participants who were not married to one another and do not share a household (85 fathers and 161 mothers). Fathers with traditional gender role attitudes whose income is lower than that of the mothers scored lower than other participants on paternal self-efficacy, and experienced less closeness and lower satisfaction in their relationship with their children, regardless of gender. The findings indicate that fathers who hold traditional gender role attitudes and do not serve as main providers constitute a particularly vulnerable group in terms of the parenting experience.


2018 ◽  
Vol 224 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-292
Author(s):  
Assist. Inst. Baidaa Anwar Rzuqi

    Modern technology, including educational bags has a role in increasing the efficiency of teaching and learning through various levels of students' skills and reflects a new idea that is set in easy way. The study aims to ((prepare educational material handicraft in the art of crochet bag, as well as identify the impact of the instruction in the development of the bag for second grade students’ average skills. And the researcher to build an educational portfolio in the material handicrafts to teach students the art of crochet through the booklet educational steps, as well as disc CD where everything related to the art of crochet steps as well, and formed the research sample of 48 female students and the use of the test Altaia (t) researcher found that there are very effective in teaching the students the art of crochet.


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