Female Disadvantage Workplace

Question 1

What did Adkins say?

Answer 1

• evidence of horizontal and vertical segregation in the workplace disadvantaging roles of women
• in theme parks males worked as ride operators and women worked in catering where they faced regular sexual harassment from other staff and customers

Question 2

What did Laura Bates say?

Answer 2

• everyday sexism project
• in the Uk parliament men outnumber women by 4 to 1
• 18 out of 108 high court judges are female

Question 3

What did the Financial Times say?

Answer 3

• the current gender pay gap suggests that if a man and a woman in the same level job worked for one calendar year, a woman would work for free from the 30th November