Specific Social Group Suffering Inequality (women)

Question 1

What is the motherhood penalty?

Answer 1

The motherhood penalty is a way of describing that women end up having to give up something in order to have children e.g. their job

Question 2

Women are more likely to have caring responsibilities

Question 3

Average cost of send a child under two to nursery?

Answer 3

£137.69 per week (25 hours)
£263.81 per week (50 hours)

Question 4

Why are women more likely to give up their work to look after their children?

Answer 4

They are more likely to do this as the family may not be making enough to cover childcare costs, due to societial expectations the women would stay at home to look after the kids and the man would go out and work

Question 5

Why does women staying off due to being pregnant, giving birth etc effect the inequality?

Answer 5

It means the men will end up having more time to gain experience in the job making it easier for them to get ahead of the women who are pregnant or looking after their newborn babies

Question 6

Working part time

Answer 6

If more women are working part time this means on average that they will be making less than men also women are more likely to be in poverty than men

Question 7

Women are more likely to do unpaid work

Question 8

What is unpaid work?

Answer 8

Unpaid work is work that you do that you don’t get paid for example house hold work

Question 9

Who does more unpaid work?

Answer 9

Working women on average do far more unpaid work than men. They spend 50% more time on unpaid care and 30% more on unpaid house work than working men.

Question 10

Why will this make women less likely to have a full time job?

Answer 10

This then means they will be less likely to build there own wealth. This means when they get to retirement age they will on average have 35% less wealth than a man in his 50s

Question 11

Women are less likely to have high paid jobs

Question 12

What are the 5 C’s?

Answer 12

The five C’s are caring, cleaning, catering, clerical and cashiering

Question 13

How many women are paid below the real living wage?

Answer 13

2 million women

Question 14

What is the glass ceiling?

Answer 14

The glass ceiling is a metaphoric barrier that stops certain people from rising into more senior positions in the workplace

Question 15

How many women were CEOS in FTSE 100?

Answer 15

21 women in 2022

Question 16

What stereotypes may women face after taking time off of work due to have kids?

Answer 16

They may be seen as lazy or not as committed as they took a period of time off and they may be seen as weak also