Gender and Social Mobility

Question 1

SAVAGE (2011)

Answer 1

Men are 40% more likely to climb the career ladder than women.

Question 2

LI AND DIVINE

Answer 2

• Black African and Caribbean women experience 15-20% fall in full time employment rates over the past
decade.

• 39% of Bangladeshi women and 35% of men work part-time.
• Part-time employment for Chinese and Indian men have doubled in the last 10 years.

Question 3

Equality and Human Rights Commission

Answer 3

Decrease in women’s participation in 10 sectors of employment, most related to positions of high reward and or status: health service chief executives, government cabinet, National Assembly, chairs of national art bodies etc.

Question 4

HEATH AND LI

“Variations in mobility”

Answer 4

Black Caribbean women (39.3%) and Chinese women (46.8%) experience lower rates of upward social mobility than Black Caribbean women (67.3%) and Chinese men (56.9%)

Question 5

LI AND DIVINE

“Social Mobility”

Answer 5

Women are less likely to be upwardly mobile and more likely to be downwardly socially mobile.