Gender inequalities

Question 1

Work and employment

Answer 1

• The gender pay gap has risen by 0.5 from 14.9 to 15.4 (ONS)
• During 2020 the gender pay gap fell to 7.4 within full time work however, the overall category for gender pay gap was 15.4
• (ONS 2013) women’s employment has been rising for the last 40 years and men’s employment has been falling overall.

Question 2

Education

Answer 2

• There are 260,000 NEET’s in the uk who are young people, 158,000 of which are men and 102,000 are women (ONS 2020)
• 18.2 of females that were eligible for FSM were earning above the living wage
• Girls, overall, are more likely to achieve a grade 5 or above in English and maths for GCSE (data for gcse attainment 2019/20 - S. gov.uk)

Question 3

Family life

Answer 3

• On average men do 16 hours a week of unpaid work whereas women do 26 hours. Men only do more hours of unpaid work in the provision of transport.
• The average full-time student does just 12 hours of unpaid work per week compared with the average mother on maternity leave who does 60.
• People on lower incomes tended to carry out more unpaid work than other income brackets, with the exception of transport.

Question 4

Media

Answer 4

• Only 30% of the main characters from CBeebies programmes were women.
• Prime-time dramas retained a 60/40 ratio of men to women in speaking parts. A similar trend was found in sports and mainstream news coverage.
• Any studies of traditional representations of men and women in the media (Tuchman, Ferguson, Easthorpe etc.)