Gender Inequality Stats

Question 1

Percent in senior roles (company directors, police officers etc)

Answer 1

The EOC - Although women represent 45% of the workforce, only 9% of company directors, 7% of senior police officers and 6% of high court judges are women.

Question 2

Pay Gap (%)

Answer 2

Still an 18% pay gap between men and women. In 2008 it was reported by the ONS that this pay gap was 22%

Question 3

Part time workers

Answer 3

Labour Market Stats (2000) - 15.4 million men employed in the UK compared to 12.5 million women. 5.5 million part time women workers compared to 1.4 million men.

Question 4

Average weekly pay of women in their early 20s

Answer 4

In 1998 the EOC noted that, in their early 20s, women earn 92% of the male wage. The average gross weekly pay of all women is only 72.5% of men’s earnings.

Question 5

Time until women will achieve equality

Answer 5

EOC (1999) - at the present rate of change women will have to wait until 2040 to achieve equality in pay.

Question 6

Median gross weakly earning for part time jobs

Answer 6

ONS (2008) - The median gross weekly earning for part time jobs for females is 149.8 where as for men i was only 136.8

Question 7

Rank for Women’s equality

Answer 7

The World Economic Forum on women’s equality ranked Britain 13th out of 130 countries in 2008 in terms of gender inequality, with a 4% drop in wage equality.

Question 8

Number of tribunal cases of sex discrimination

Answer 8

In 2006, the EOC showed that over the 30 years from 1976, there were a quarter of a million employment tribunal cases of sex discrimination with 67,000 related to equality.

Question 9

Likely to be victims of crime

Answer 9

Men are twice more likely to be the victims of crime than women, but women are more likely to know their attackers.

Question 10

Murder Victims

Answer 10

30% of murder victims were women who were killed by a partner or former partner, according to the 2000 BCS.

Question 11

Women experienced rape

Answer 11

The 2000 BCS suggested that probably 5% of women have experienced rape.

Question 12

Women MPs

Answer 12

Women remain less than 20% of all MPs

Question 13

State Pension

Answer 13

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation found that women are more likely to rely on state pensions.

Question 14

Arber and Cooper (99)

Answer 14

Found that women are far more likely to have been in low status employment with few rights or benefits.

Question 15

Pay gap

Answer 15

Clear pay gap with women earning an average £394 a week and men £496 (ONS, 2007)

Question 16

Managers and senior post holders

Answer 16

Only 11% of women are managers and senior post holders, compared with 18% of men.

Question 17

Likelihood to be employed

Answer 17

Women are less likely to be employed than men with 70% of working age women in work compared to 79% of working age men (ONS)

Question 18

Berthoud (2002)

Answer 18

Women are more likely to live in poverty than men and spend longer periods in unemployment.

Question 19

Seager (1997)

Answer 19

found that women spent much more time each on domestic tasks than men and that men had more leisure and rest time than women

Question 20

Female MPs and House of Common Lords

Answer 20

In 2007/08, only 19% of MPs and 20% of the House of Lords were female.

Question 21

Number of female members of the cabinet.

Answer 21

Equalityhumanrights.com - From 2006/07, the number of female members of the cabinet fell from 35% in 2006 to 26%.

Question 22

Gender pay gap, in comparison to Europe

Answer 22

In 2006 it was reported that the gender pay gap in the UK is one of the highest in Europe: women who work full time earned 17% less per hour than men and women working part time earned 39% less per hour than men working full time. Fawcett Society (2006)

Question 23

Men in terms of crime

Answer 23

Men are hugely disadvantaged in terms of crime and violence; men are convicted of more crime than women. Women make up only 6% of the prison population (HM Prison Service).

Question 24

Male prisoners released from prison

Answer 24

8% of male prisoners released from prison are re-convicted within 2 years (Social Trends, 1998)

Question 25

Male population found guilty for an offense

Answer 25

In 2001, 167 per 10,000 of the male population were found guilty or cautioned for an offense compared to 3.7 per 10,000 of the female population.