Gender Inequalities - Unit2 Section B (20 Marker)

Question 1

what did Adkin say about female gender inequality in the work place

Answer 1

Found evidence of horizontal and vertical segregation in the workplace disadvantaging the roles of women. In theme parks males worked as ride operators whilst women worked in catering. In these roles women faced regular sexual harassment from other staff and customers.

Question 2

what did the fawcett society say about female gender inequality

Answer 2

The gender pay gap stands at 13.7% in 2019 - In 2015 is was 13.9% showing that the gap has closed but only slightly - Meaning there is little or no change occuring. For every £1 a man earns a woman earns 86p…that equates to 2 months of ‘free labour’ every year. Although in previous years the pay gap reduce, it has not improved since 2015.

Question 3

what did the Financial Times say about female gender inequality

Answer 3

The current gender pay gap suggests that if both a man and a women in the same level job worked for one calendar year - A woman would effectively work for free from the 30th November. Also the biggest pay gap is in the financial and insurance sector.

Question 4

what did Laura bates - everyday sexism project say about female inequality in the work place

Answer 4

In the UK parliament men outnumber women by 4 to 1. Also only 18 out of 108 High Court Judges are female.

Question 5

what did sportsthinktank.com say bout female inequality in the work place

Answer 5

In the top UK leagues from both genders it can be seen that this pattern isn’t restricted to individual cases. Male Premier League players would earn £772 per minute if they were to play every minute of a regular season (based on the average wage of the league). Doing the same calculation of the FA Women’s Super League, the result is just £16.72 for female players.

Question 6

what did the financial times say gender inequality in the work place

Answer 6

The gender pay gap means that if men and women worked for one calendar months… women would work for free from November 30th onwards…

Question 7

what did Mac an ghaill say about male gender inequality in the work place

Answer 7

The Crisis of Masculinity. Deindustrialisation and feminisation of the labour market has led to increased unemployment for men.

Question 8

what did willis say about male gender inequality within the work place

Answer 8

States that working class ‘Lads’ are fatalistic about their futures due to following in their father’s footsteps – Leading them into low status, low paid, basic manual labour jobs.

Question 9

what did Doyal say about male gender inequality in the work place

Answer 9

Claims that as males dominate in high risk industrial jobs, they are more likely to suffer workplace accidents.

Question 10

what did benatar say about male gender inequality in the work place

Answer 10

In his book ‘The Second Sexism’ states that the least desirable and most dangerous jobs, and those with least pay and security remain largely the domain of men.

Question 11

what did Dermott say about male gender inequality in the work place

Answer 11

Argues men work longer hours than women regardless of their status as fathers.

Question 12

what did Farrell say about male gender inequality in the work place

Answer 12

The ‘glass cellar’ – of the 25 professions ranked lowest, 24 of them are 85-100% male dominated e.g. roofer, welder, rubbish collector and sewer maintenance.

Question 13

what did reach media monitoring project say about male gender inequality in the work place

Answer 13

Found that coverage of black young males in the news often links them with violent crime, and particularly murders involving knives and/or gangs. This negative image of black males can therefore provides negative role models.

Question 14

what does Skelton say about female gender inequality in education

Answer 14

Suggests that the hidden curriculum (such as attitudes of teachers) negatively influences subject choices.

Question 15

what does Kelly say about female gender inequality in education

Answer 15

Suggests that Science is packaged as a boys subject – Boys are allowed to dominate science classrooms and examples in textbooks are male relates e.g. cars and footballs in examples. This leads to girls being disengaged from the subject.

Question 16

what does Colley say about female gender inequality in the work place?

Answer 16

Suggests that Science is packaged as a boys subject – Boys are allowed to dominate science classrooms and examples in textbooks are male relates e.g. cars and footballs in examples. This leads to girls being disengaged from the subject.

Question 17

what does willis say about male gender inequality in education

Answer 17

States that working class ‘Lads’ are fatalistic about their futures due to following in their father’s footsteps – Leading them into low status, low paid, basic manual labour jobs – This means that they developed anti-school attitudes in the workplace as they did not see the value in achievement (they did not need qualifications to get these jobs).

Question 18

what does mitos and Browne say about male gender inequality in education

Answer 18

States that teachers treat males and females differently and that this can cause inequality for boys – They state that teachers are too lenient on ‘laddish’ behaviour of boys and that this can do them a disservice leading to their lack of achievement. Whereas they are hard on girls who are seen as breaking both the school rules and gender norms – ‘doubly deviant’ – This ensures that they achieve.

Question 19

what does the department for education say about male gender inequality in education

Answer 19

In 2019, 71.9% of female students achieved a C/4 grade or higher in comparison to 62.9% of male students who achieved a C/4 grade or higher in the United Kingdom

Question 20

what does Ferguson say about inequality in the media

Answer 20

Conducted a content analysis of women’s magazines and counted up the number of times a certain topic was covered. She concluded women’s’ magazines were based around a ‘cult of femininity’ which promotes the idea that excellence is achieved through caring for others, the family, marriage and appearance.

Question 21

what does Billington say about female inequality in the media

Answer 21

Argues that the media presents masculinity as dominant and femininity as subordinate.

Question 22

what does Laura bates and the everyday sexism project say about female inequality in the media

Answer 22

Women directed 5% of 250 major films in 2012 and only 1/5 of front page newspaper articles are written by women

Question 23

what do milestones and Meyer say about female inequality in the media

Answer 23

contend that whilst steps have been taken to achieve gender equalities, dominant notions of essential gender differences and ideological representation of masculinities and femininities continue to perpetuate inequalities within the media.