Gender inequality (in education, health and work)
- Created by: sarah_mocha
- Created on: 22-06-16 16:52
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- Gender inequality
- Employment
- Women form 47% of the UK workforce
- 5.85 million women working part-time compared to 2.11 million men
- 1 in 5 women are carers
- Dunscombe & Marsden: Triple shift - women have to do paid work, domestic work and emotion work
- Dual labour market theory: many women in secondary market
- Glass/concrete ceiling: women can get to a certain level, but cannot rise to top positions
- e.g 67 of FTSE 250 company boards are all-male, and there are more CEOs named John than there are female CEOs
- Vertical & Horizontal segregation
- Gender pay gap
- Beechey: Reserve army of labour
- Health
- women suffer higher levels of illness than men and frequent the health services more often (however this is inflated by pregnancy, chilcare and longevity)
- Women are more likely to suffer from mental illnesses, especially depression and anxiety
- Men are more likely to commit suicide than women
- Women more likely to suffer from eating disorders, likely due to pressure from media
- Young males engage in risky behaviour, thus increasing their risk of accidents or death
- Men are more likely alcoholics and drug addicts
- Education
- Girls of all ethnic backgrounds do better than boys up to post-16
- Subject choice is largely gendered, with girls being pressured to pick subjects like the arts
- Girls are more likely to stay on in education past 16
- Sharpe: girls' aspirations have changed
- Bedroom culture
- Initiatives within schools, e.g "Girls into Science and Technology
- Jackson: threat of losing traditional identities had led boys to develop laddish behaviour + anti-school subcultures
- Negative consequences of single-parenthood for boys
- Introduction of coursework
- Willis: anti-school subcultures stemming from resisting capitalism
- Francis: schools are male orientated, boys take dominate classroom and playground. boys get more attention from teachers and girls are not pushed to their full potential
- Jackson: Girls adopting laddish behaviours traditionally associated with boys
- Employment
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