Work & Employment: Ethnicity Flashcards
What did the ONS find?
Black person 3x more likely to be out of work than a White person.
What did the Joseph Rowntree Foundation find?
MEGs do not receive same financial reward as White group. White men paid on average £1.80 per hour more than MEG men.
What were the highest rate of unemployment for women?
Arab (64%) Bangladeshi (61%) Pakistani (60%) or Gypsy Traveller (60%).
Which ethnic groups were men in low skilled jobs from?
Pakistani, Black African and Bangladeshi
Who were the most likely to work fewer than 30 hours a week?
Bangladeshi and Gypsy Traveller women
What did Wood find?
That 29% of applications were favoured if they had a white name rather than an ethnic minority.
Who found that ethnic minority graduates, particularly women, find it harder to gain high-level positions in work?
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
What did Battu and Sloane say?
Ethnic minorities in employment are more likely to be overeducated for their jobs.
Who talked about the ‘concrete ceiling’?
Davidson
What is the ‘concrete ceiling’?
Women from ethnic minorities will not reach promotion due to discrimination. White women have seen to, at times, be able to break through their glass ceiling, but this concrete ceiling ethnic minorities have is unbreakable.
