gender inequality patterns and trends

Question 1

work and employment - ONS 2013

Answer 1

• more men work in professional occupations
  -women dominate caring and leisure occupation
• men make up majority of top 10 of earners

Question 2

work and employment - fawcett society 2013

Answer 2

• self employed women earn 40% less than men
• 11% of bank CEOs are women

Question 3

work and employment - UK feminista

Answer 3

30k women are sacked due to pregnancies
400k lose out on pay/promotion

Question 4

income and wealth

Answer 4

• benefits are 5th of womens pay / 10th of mens pay
• 22% of women have persistent low income
• 70% of people on national minimum wage jobs are women
• women own 1% of the world wealth

Question 5

poverty

Answer 5

• women represent 70% of world poor population
  women are more likely to be impacted by poverty than men

Question 6

poverty - trussell trust 2014

Answer 6

food poverty affects women as they go hungry to feed their children

Question 7

poverty - joseph rowntree definition

Answer 7

poverty is a human right issue and is defined as an experience of social isolation

Question 8

social mobility - savage 2011

Answer 8

men 40% more likely to climb the career ladder

Question 9

social mobility - equality and human right commission

Answer 9

decrease in womens participation in 10 sectors of employment

Question 10

social mobility - li and devine 2011

Answer 10

black african and caribbean women 20% fall in fulltime emplyoment
- young british muslim women find discrimination as a barrier to employment

Question 11

male inequalities - mac an ghaill 1994

Answer 11

crisis of masculinity
- after the sector shift and feminisation, men had no clear identity as a lack of traditional male roles made them question their role

Question 12

male inequalities - ONS 2010

Answer 12

• men worked 39hrs a week while women worked 34hrs
• girls gain more a-c gcse grades than boys
• working class boys are most underachieving