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Evidence Of Gender Disadvantages Flashcards

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What are the examples of female disadvantage in the workplace?

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  1. Adkins
  2. Laura bates
  3. The Financial Times
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What did Adkin’s say?

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  • horizontal and vertical segregation disadvantaging the roles of women
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What did Laura Bate’s say?

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  • everyday sexism project, in the uk parliament men outnumber women by 4 to 1
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What did the Financial Times say?

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  • the current gender pay gap suggests that if a man and woman int he same level job worked for one calendar year, a woman would work for free from the 30th November
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What are examples of female disadvantage in education?

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  1. Skelton
  2. Kelly
  3. Colley
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What did Skelton say?

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  • suggests that the hidden curriculum negatively influences subject choices
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What did Kelly say?

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  • science is packaged as a boys subject
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What did Colley say?

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  • subject choices are negatively influenced by perception of gender roles, subject preferences and learning environment
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What are the examples of female disadvantage in the media?

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  1. Ferguson
  2. Tuchman
  3. Mulvey
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What did Ferguson say?

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  • cult of femininity
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What did Tuchman say?

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  • symbolic annihilation where the mass media omit, trivialise or condemn groups such as women
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What did Mulvey say?

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  • male gaze where men view women as passive objects for their desire
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What are examples of female disadvantage in relation to crime?

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  1. Harding
  2. Laura bates
  3. Leonard
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What did Harding say?

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  • girls in gangs in south London took the role as fixers and subject to abuse and harassment from male gang members
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What did Laura bates say?

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  • over two women a week in the UK are killed by a current or former partner
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What did Leonard say?

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  • judges label females as doubly deviant and judge that they have not only broken laws but also gender roles meaning they should be punished more harshly
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What are the examples of male disadvantage in the workplace?

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  1. Dermott
  2. Farrell
  3. Benatar
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What did Dermott say?

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  • men work longer hours than women regardless of status as fathers
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What did Farrell say?

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  • the glass cellar, of the 25 professions ranked the lowest, 24 of them are 85-100% male dominated
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What did Benatar say?

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  • the second sexism, least describable and most dangerous jobs with least pay and security are male dominated
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What are examples of male disadvantage in education?

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  1. Willis
  2. Mitsos and Browne
  3. Department for education
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What did Willis say?

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  • working class lads follow their fathers footsteps in manual labour jobs leading to low status and pay due to developing anti school attitudes
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What did Mitsos and Browne say?

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  • teachers are too lenient on laddish behaviour of boys leading to lack of achievement whereas girls labelled as doubly deviant ensuring achievement
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What did the Department for education say?

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  • in 2019, 71.9% of female students achieved a grade 4 or higher in comparison to 62.9% of male students who achieved a grade 4 of higher
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What are examples of male disadvantage in the media?

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  1. Sewell
  2. Easthorpe
  3. REACH media monitoring project
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What did Sewell say?

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  • black Caribbean boys turned to rapper role models in the media during to lack of father figure, lead to hyper masculinity and anti-school subculture
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What did Easthorpe say?

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  • Hollywood films and computer games transmit the view that masculinity based on strength, aggression, competition and violence is biologically determined and natural for boys to achieve
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What did REACH media monitoring project say?

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  • coverage of young black males in the news links them with violent crimes and particularly murders involving knives or gangs
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What are examples of male disadvantage in relation to crime?

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  1. Messerschmidt
  2. Campbell
  3. Faludi
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What did Messerschmidt say?

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  • gang acts as a location for doing masculinity which has to be accomplished or approved
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What did Campbell say?

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  • men are denied their masculinity through academic success or being the breadwinner so turn to violence and antisocial behaviour to express their masculinity
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What did Faludi say?

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  • males are not deviant, they are performing their masculinity and demonstrated qualities expected from males

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