Gender Inequality (20)

Question 1

What is the first reason for gender inequality?

Answer 1

Health inequality

Question 2

1) Finish the first sentence:

Females have…

Answer 2

A longer life expectancy than males, but are more likely to experience health morbidity (long term illness or disease).

Question 3

2) Statistic on female life expectancy

Answer 3

The average life expectancy for all women is 3 years longer than men

Question 4

3) what does the Acheson Report (1998) state?

Answer 4

Found higher rates of anxiety and depression in women than men

Question 5

4)what does the New Policy Institute (2013) find?

Answer 5

Women in all sectors of society could expect to see higher life expectancy than men.

Question 6

5)what did the data from coroners and courts find about male health?

Answer 6

Males are significantly more likely to commit suicide, they are more overweight and more likely to die from cancers that affect males and females

Question 7

6) What do Mind company state?

Answer 7

There is an under reporting of mental health issues amoung men, in which they are keen to address

Question 8

7) what statistics do Samaritans.org 2016 state?

Answer 8

In the UK, men are 3x as likely to die by suicide than women; in the Republic of Ireland the rate is 4x higher.

Question 9

8)what does the 2008 Wilkins report state?

Answer 9

There are both biological and social reasons for gender inequalities in health e.g men were far more like old to die from heart related disease and women from strokes

Question 10

9) statistics about males and alcohol

Answer 10

Men are at higher risk of alcohol abuse and self endangering behaviour when drunk

Question 11

10) what did the counsekkinfdirectory.org find?

Answer 11

Found men are almost 3x as liked to become dependent on alcohol, equating to 8.7% if men, compared to 3.3% of women. Men are also 3x less likely to report frequent drug abuse than women.

Question 12

11) What did Batty et al find?

Answer 12

Men of low social class had increased risk of alcohol related problems and females of higher social classes were more at risk than their male counterparts

Question 13

12) what was concluded by ASH?

Answer 13

The anti smoking charity found that the numbers of females smoking are increasing especially among younger age groups.

Question 14

What is the second area of life where there is gender inequality?

Answer 14

In education/the work place

Question 15

1) what did the government do in 2015 to study gender inequalities

Answer 15

They consulted on a new legislation asking firms of over 250 employees to publish their gender pay gaps exposing inequality

Question 16

2)what did the Fawcett Society discover?

Answer 16

The gender pay gap for full time work=13% gender pay gap for all women= 20%

Question 17

3) what did the equality and human rights commission (2015) discover?

Answer 17

Found female graduates often earn £8,000 per year less than males, even when they have the same quality of degree.

Question 18

4) what % of those in the lowest paid work are female?

Answer 18

80%

Question 19

5) what % of those in skilled highly paid work are male?

Answer 19

90%

Question 20

6) what do the Fawcett claim about women redundancy?

Answer 20

Claims that 54,000 women leave work each year as a result of being sacked, made redundant or otherwise overlook as a result of pregnancy

Question 21

7) What is the overall gender gap in skilled trades

Answer 21

Gender gap in skilled trades is 25% in favour of men, and the very highest earning males tend to earn as much as 50%-60% more than female colleagues

Question 22

8) what did Mulligan conclude?

Answer 22

“Women in speciality occupations were found to earn just 72.7% of what men in the same occupation were earning.”

Question 23

9) what does Huffman argue?

Answer 23

Huffman argues that societies “function to maintain the dominant groups interest by sustaining existing inequalities in workplace through power and rewards”

Question 24

10) how are men sometimes disadvantaged in the work place

Answer 24

Males only get 2 consecutive week paternity leave, whereas all employed pregnant females are entitled up to 52 weeks of maternity leave.
(NHSdirect.wales.nhs)

Question 25

11) what % lower to part time males earn compared to part time females?

Answer 25

Part time males earn 6% less than women on average

Question 26

12) compare earnings of full time working females and males (young age bracket)

Answer 26

Full time working women in the younger age groups earn very slightly more on average than men (Forbes)