Gender Inequality Flashcards
The UK labour market is characteriaed by _____ segregation, meaning different sectors of employment are dominated by either male or female workers. For example, the ____ _____ _____ found that most women make up __% of health and social work, whereas men are more likely to be in professional ______ jobs,
_____ segregation is when male and females both dominate in different levels of occupation, which vary in terms of ____, ____ and ____. Women are more likely to be in ____ levels occupation. This means they encounter a _____/_____ effect, where they can see top jobs, but ______ or ______ creates barriers from women getting them.
Horizontal, dominated, Equal Opportunities Commission, 80, managerial, Vertical, status, skill, pay, lower, glass ceiling, restriction, discrimination
Female Inequality in Workplace
• ONS Reports that men are more likely than women to work in higher _______ levels when they graduate, which are given more pay
• ONS reports that men make the majority of workers in the top __% of earners in the UK.
• ONS reports that self-employed women earn __% less than self employed men.
• UK _____ reports that up to _____ women in the UK are fired for being pregnant, which means averagely _______ women lose out in promotions because of pregnancy.
• Women’s ____ group finds women are unable to work in order to take care of their children
Occupational, 10, 40, Feminista, 30,000, 400,000, Budget,
FEMALE INEQUALITIES IN INCOME
• UK _______ find that the cutting benefits is more likely to effect women than men, because benefits make ____/____ of women’s income
• ONS reports that __% of women, compared to __% of men, in the UK have low income
• ___/___/_____ found that __% of people in minimum wage jobs are women because their families suffer from low incomes
________ of Poverty occurs when a majority of women don’t earn as much as men and end up in low _____ work
Feminista, one fifth, 22, 14, Low pay commission, 70, Feminisation, status
FEMALE INEQUALITIES IN EDUCATION
• Feminists argue that the ______ curriculum means that subject choices in schools are ______/_____. This leads to reinforcement of _____ gender segregation, because the degree of subjects is more likely to influence career.
• GCSE results show that males outperform females in maths, by __%
Hidden, gender steriotyped, vertical, 0.5
MALE INEQUALITIES IN WORKPLACE
• ONS reports men in the UK work longer hours than women, with__ hours a week, compared to __ hours for women
• _______ finds the most dangerous jobs in the UK are occupied by men
• _____ ______ _____ reports that __% of people killed in the workplace every year are men
39, 34, Benatar, The Health Data, 95
MALE INEQUALITIES IN FAMILY
• Equal Opportunities Commission has found that fathers are more likely to work _____ hours than ___ who don’t have children
• Equal Opportunities Commission has found that fathers in the UK work the longest hours in ______, with __ hours a week
• Equal Opportunities Commission has found that _____ are more likely to take time off work for family
• Equal Opportunities Commission has found that fathers earn more _____ than mothers
Longer, men, Europe, 46, fathers, income
MALE INEQUALITIES IN HEALTH
• Department of Health & Social Care has found that men are more likely to be diagnosed with _____/______ than women
• Department of Health & Social Care has found that in ____, __% of suicide rates in the UK were men.
• ___/____/___ has found that men are __ times more likely to die of COVID-19 compared to women
• Mens Health Forum has found that women have a higher life-expectancy rate than men, with __ years, compared to men __ years.
Health conditions, 2019, 75, The Health Net, 1.3, Men’s Health Forum, 82, 78
MALE INEQUALITIES IN EDUCATION
• Department of Education has found that girls are __ likely to out perform boys at GCSEs
• Department of Education has found that boys are ___ as likely to have ____ issues compared to girls in school
• Department of Education has found that boys are ____ times as likely to be expelled from school compared to girls
• Department of Education found that ____-_____/____ boys are the most underachieved group in school
• ____ arguing that boys do worse at school than girls because the system is now designed for ____
More, twice, literacy, four, white-working class, Benatar, females
