ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the way in which the roles, actions and activities of parents involved in the higher education choice process are gendered. It is useful to consider some other roles that may be cast for both fathers and mothers set against the issue of social class and access to information about higher education markets. Young people saw home in terms of identity and belonging with 'the norm of locality equal to that of social class'. The chapter focuses on the family and considers the ways in which gendered activities come into play as parents take on university challenge and act as facilitators in the choice process. One exception in terms of the relation between parental participation in higher education and their involvement with the choice process can be seen in the Hussein family. D. Leonard's study found that young people made choices which were constrained by the 'pull' of localism.
