Gender and social mobility

Question 1

What is social mobility ?

Answer 1

The movement of people within or between social strata

Question 2

What is Li and Devines theory ?

Answer 2

• women have less upward mobility than men, instead they are downwardly mobile
• found that Black African and Black Caribbean women have experienced a 15-20% fall in full-time employment

Question 3

What is Heath and Li’s study about gender and social mobility ?

Answer 3

• differences in mobility due to ethnicity and gender
• lower rates of upward mobility for Black Caribbean men and Chinese women
• In second generation south east asians, men had more upward mobility than women