Evidence Of Female Disadvantage (Workplace, Education, Media, Crime)

Question 1

Adkins - Workplace

Answer 1

Horizontal and vertical segregation

Question 2

Laura Bates - workplace

Answer 2

Every day sexism project, men outnumber women by 4 to 1

Question 3

Skeleton - Education

Answer 3

Hidden curriculum, negatively influences, subject choices

Question 4

Kelly - education

Answer 4

Sciences package as a boy, subject, boys are allowed to dominate science classrooms, textbooks are male related

Question 5

Colley - education

Answer 5

Subject choices are negatively influenced by perception of gender roles, subject preferences and learning environment

Question 6

Ferguson - Media

Answer 6

Cult of femininity, promote the idea that excellence is achieved through caring for others, the family, marriage and appearance

Question 7

Tuchman - media

Answer 7

Narrow range of roles for women lead to the symbolic annihilation

Question 8

Mulvey - media

Answer 8

Male gaze

Question 9

Harding - Crime

Answer 9

Girls and gangs in South London found girls took the rules as fixers, and were used by males to hard weapons and drugs, subjected to sexual abuse and harassment from male gang members

Question 10

Everyday Sexism Project, Laura Bates - Crime

Answer 10

Over two women, a week in the UK are killed by a current or former partner

Question 11

Leonard - Crime

Answer 11

Judges, labour females as doubly deviant, they have not only broken laws, but also gender roles, meaning they should be punished more harshly.