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Monday, 4 June 2007
3 Parental aspirations
Attitudes to higher education – the gender gap, again, yawn, but wait, I think there is something new here and it’s interesting. A survey has indicated that parental aspirations for their children going into higher education are now higher for girls than boys. http://www.tes.co.uk/search/story/?story_id=2379179 It seems to me, that this is part of a pattern where girls are under more pressure to become responsible adults than, at least some of, their male contemporaries. The low skilled male seems increasingly drone like, no longer a necessary breadwinner; they are without an adult function and seem destined to remain in perpetual adolescence.
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