gender ethnicity age

Question 1

gender

Answer 1

feminist
equal pay act
women now increasingly likely to achieve

Question 2

Feminist - gender

Answer 2

most significant social division
patriarchal
men: power within families work etc
receive bigger share of rewards (wealth)

Question 3

gender - occupations

Answer 3

male/ female dominated

Question 4

what happens when men and women work in same occupations l?

Answer 4

lower level jobs while men hold senior.

2007- 19% men and 11% women- managers or senior officials

Question 5

gender- wage

Answer 5

still earn less than men
•held back when applying for promotions because of responsibility of housework/childcare.
•expensive childcare provision - won’t stay in work long

Question 6

ethnicity

Answer 6

1976 race relations act outlawed discrimination
•awareness of institutional racism
Unemployment high among ethnic minorities in comparison
•women of ethnicity much worse change of getting professional jobs than white peers of same age and educational level.

Question 7

How have governments tried to reduce inequality based on ethnicity

Answer 7

funding bodies such as Equality and human rights commission which enforces equality laws,

Race Relations act 1970

Question 8

age

Answer 8

socially constructed

-although child labour now illegal in ritalin, was the norm among WK in 19 C and exists in some parts of world today

Question 9

Reducing age

Answer 9

regulations against age discrimination in employment and training

Question 10

How status of older can vary between cultures

Answer 10

Some- ageing seen as something to be avoided

Others- look forward to, high status in society