Ethnic inequalities (in work, education and health)
- Created by: sarah_mocha
- Created on: 22-06-16 17:42
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- Ethnicity and inequality
- Employment
- White men are the most likely to be employed (91% in FT employment), with Bangladeshi men least likely (61% in FT employment)
- Unemployment rate of black graduates is 24%, worse than any other group of graduates
- Yi Cheung: Ethnic penalty - ethnic minorities face difficulties in the labour market compared to their white counterparts of same age and human capital
- Mason: members of some ethnic groups are severely disadvantaged in the labour market which could be due to employers attitudes
- Bhopal: women from Pakistani and Bangladeshi backgrounds are sometimes limited by cultural constraints - they often worked at home due to their husbands' preferences or need to care for children
- Education
- Black students are around 4x more likely to be excluded or labelled as troublesome and loud
- Institutional racism leading to disadvantage - institutions such as schools give negative treatment to a group of people based on their race
- Strand: teachers less likely to enter Afro-Caribbean students for higher-tier tests at 14 in science and maths, had a knock-on effect on GCSEs
- Teachers develop perceptions of their students, more likely to perceive Afro-Caribbean students as disruptive
- Wright: teacher racism - teachers believed Asian students would have a poor grasp of English and left them out of discussions
- Pakistani and black students do the worst in the education system
- Health
- The risk of poor health and higher mortality is greater in most minority ethnic communities than in the white majority
- Some minority groups are biologically predisposed to some illnesses e.g diabetes - hispanic/latino americans and afro-americans more likely to get diabetes
- Africans and Afro-Caribbeans have an increased incidence of high blood pressure and strokes
- African-Caribbeans more likely to be compulsorily sectioned. Could be due to institutional racism
- Employment
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