Female and male can be defined by their distinctive physical appearance, but for gender roles it will change from time to time. In traditional gender roles, males had authority over females and children, and females had no right to speak or defend themselves. Having gone through three waves of women's movement, women's rights and the status of women in society have been improved significantly, as well as in Australian society. However, women continue to play a disproportionate role in various situations, such as school, the workplace and the family. According to Bandura (1971), children do not have the ability to understand what their gender roles are, so they learn through observation and experience. Children will gain the idea of gender roles as they grow up experiencing gender segregation from school. (Macionis, 2012). After children understand their gender role through observation, they will pass on the gender role definition from generation to generation. For example, women are meant to be mothers and wives, so their duties are to raise children and take care of all household tasks. For males, they are the symbol of power, so their roles are intended to maintain authority over everyone in the home, work, earnings and income to support the family. Therefore, social labeling is fundamentally formed by education. In this article, we will focus on education policy to examine how it has shaped gender relations in Australia and how women challenge policy in their personal and collective lives. Therefore, this document will be divided into three sections. The first section will explain the role of ideology in education; the second section will analyze how... half of the document ......Education and training, 2008. Educational strategy for boys and girls: priority schools and peer coordination. Darlinghurst: Priority Schools and Equity Coordination Unit, pp.1-3. Sadker, M. and Sadker, D., 1994. Failure to fairness. 1st ed. New York: C. Scribner's Sons.The Australian Trade Commission, 2014. Australian Education System. [online] Studyinaustralia.gov.au. Available at: [Accessed 4 June 2014].Turner, S. and Bowen, W., 1999. Choosing a major: The Changing (Unchanging) Gender Gap. Industrial and Labor Relations Reviews, 52(2), pp.289-313. Walford, G., 1981. Tracing sexism in physics textbooks. Physics Education, 16(5), pp.261-265. Watts, M., 2014. Gender segregation in higher education levels in Australia 1978-94. 1st ed. Callaghan: Newcastle University, pp.3-24.
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