mods social inequality sections of unit
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- Created on: 12-01-22 18:50
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- Reasons why income and wealth inequalities exist
- educational inequalities leading to unequal earning power
- education
- gap in language ability between rich and poor
- SQA finds huge attainment gap between deprived and affluent communities
- digital poverty
- in some schools in Scotland 60-70% of pupils don't have laptops
- studying in difficult home conditions
- better off children will have studied 7 days more than their poorer peers during first month of lockdown
- highest income families spend 6 hours a day on education, lower = 4 and a half
- in specific ages 3-5, by age 5 10 month gap in problem solving development between rich and poor
- In 2017, in Scotland as a whole less than half of students from 20% poorest house holds left with a higher exam pass
- education
- addiction and criminality
- deprived areas = crime and bad behaviourable influence, Glasgow crime rates per 10,000 = 682
- wage differentials
- women - pay gap
- gender pay gap remains largest in male sectors at 24% and lowest in sale and customer service at 4.8%
- 2018 report - pay gap record low, 8.6%
- glass ceiling - women loose or are rejected opportunities despite qualification, degrees or achievement
- best paid women who work full time earn around 20% less than best paid men
- interrupted employment
- childcare leading to time needed off of work
- low confidence and skill levels after return from time off
- experience is main factor employers look for
- part-time
- 2/3 of women with children under 11 work part time
- women working part-time earn 32% less per hour than full time working women and 41% less than full time working men
- women tend to work from ages 25-45 meaning possible lack of employment and high payed roles
- women - pay gap
- social exclusion
- deprived areas
- Glasgow experiences it most because most deprived place in Scotland
- over 10.3 million facing financial insecurity
- ACEs and poverty causing unequal opportunities
- abuse, neglect vulnerability, less support and attention to build a future
- racial discrimination
- direct discrimination, denied opportunity based on race
- deprived areas
- changes in employment
- unemployment in the UK jumped from 1.61 million to 2.68 million by October 2011, fewer people in work and many more people dependent on benefits, inequality widened
- economy growth, start of 2018, unemployment figure 1.4 million, although there has been a rise in part-time employment where rates of pay are lower
- educational inequalities leading to unequal earning power
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