Factors of Age Inequalities
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- Created on: 13-06-21 12:04
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- AGE INEQUALITIES
- EMPLOYMENT
- YOUTH
- 16 year olds have a minimum wage of £4 per hour
- Seen as cheap labour
- Restrictions on where they can work
- 14/15 year olds cannot work more than 12 hours during a school week
- More likely to be on low pay/ minimum wage
- ELDERLY
- 'deskilled'
- The Digital Divide
- Dowd (1989) 'strangers in their own land'
- 38% of discrimination cases filed are about age
- Evidence showing more people are working past retirement because they can't afford not to
- State pension on the rise- by 2026 it will be 67
- 20% of 65-74 year olds are in insecure work
- YOUTH
- POVERTY
- 3.5 million children living in poverty in the UK (1/3)
- This affects a child's life chances
- 16% of pensioners live in poverty
- fuel poverty- 1/10 of money spent on fuel bill
- Have to choose between heating and food
- 3.5 million children living in poverty in the UK (1/3)
- HOUSING
- 1/3 of homes with at least 1 'category 1 hazard' is occupied by someone 55 and over
- Poor housing in later life is more likely to affect older BAME people
- 29% of BAME renting later in life, as oppose to 17% of white households
- In general, people from BAME backgrounds are more likely to live in deprived neigbourhoods
- Young people find it harder than previous generations to gain access to social housing
- HEALTH
- Grundy and Holt (2001)- 'burden of ill health'
- Over 50% of people over 65 have at least two chronic health conditions
- 1 in 5 in routine occupations say that age prevents them from doing things
- Link to social class- people with financial security age very differently
- Proportion of men and women from poorer backgrounds with issues like chronic heart disease, depression, diabetes etc is much higher than that of a higher social class
- Men over 50- poorest= 50% have arthritis, 1/4 of wealthiest
- EXPERIENCE
- English Longitudinal Study of Ageing- over 7,500 people over 50, questions about harassment
- 1.973 of respondents said that they had been affected by age discrimination
- 1 in 4 people over 50 been treated unfairly
- Study by CV Library (2017)- 70% of UK workers agree that age discrimination is common
- English Longitudinal Study of Ageing- over 7,500 people over 50, questions about harassment
- EMPLOYMENT
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