Gender Inequality

Question 1

Stanko (2000)

Answer 1

• Says that of all reported violent acts, one third are committed by men on their female partners.
• Claims that one incident of domestic violence against women is reported to police every minute.
• The Domestic Abuse Report 2021: The Annual Audit of Women’s Aid Services supported an estimated 13,414 women in refuge services and 154,306 women in community based services throughout the year 2016-2017.
• Nearly a third of respondents said their access to money during the relationship was controlled by the perpetrator.

Question 2

Dryden (1999)

Answer 2

• Studied 17 married couples and found that women still had major responsibility for housework and childcare.

Question 3

The Time-use Survey of 2005

Answer 3

• Carried out by Lader et al.
• Found that women in paid work spent 21 hours a week on average on housework, compared with 12 hours spent by men.

Question 4

Cumberbatch

Answer 4

• Carried out research for the ways in which women and men are represented in television advertisements.
• He found that nearly 2/3 of people in advertisements were men and that the majority of voiceovers in advertisements were men.
• Women in advertisemets were more likely than men to be young and blonde, men were more likely than women to be shown in a professional work setting.

Question 5

Williams (1997)

Answer 5

• Examined coverage of women’s football on television and in newspapers.
• He found little coverage of women’s football compared to men and schoolboys.
• When women’s sport is reported it is only covered partially and in ways that trivialise the achievements of women players.

Question 6

Vincent et al (2007)

Answer 6

• Examined print media coverage of female competitors at Wimbledon.
• Found that the focus was on how the female tennis players looked rather than on the sport that they played.
• Results indicated that predominantly male journalists devalued, marginalised and trivialised the athleticism of the female tennis players.