made it illegal to pay men and women different amounts for the same work
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sociologists estimate women get paid on average ? percent less than men for the same work
10%
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what did the sex discrimination act of 1975 outlaw?
the more blatant forms of sex discrimination in the workplace, essentially making it illegal to disadvantage one gender over another when recruiting for jobs
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does inequality still exist in terms of gender?
yes
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which gender is more likely to work part time?
women
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of the 6.8 million part time workers in the UK in 2002, which percentage were women?
80%
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what percentage of women with children 5-16 work full time?
20%
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what percentage of women with children under the age of 5 do not work at all?
47%
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what did alakson find?
70% of her sample of part time working women told her that they had freely chosen to work part time in order to balance family commitments and work
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what percentage of the sample group had to take jobs that were lower skilled and lower paid than they had been previously?
44%
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what does alakson call this?
part time penalty
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what is meant by vertical segregation?
when men and women tend to be concentrated at different levels
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what is this also referred as?
glass ceiling
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who tend to be under-represented at the most senior positions?
women
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who is most likely to encounter the glass ceiling?
the middle class
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what does this mean?
they can see where they would like to go next but the ceiling impedes further progress
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what did desai et al find?
women are starting to break through the glass ceiling
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what did desai predict?
the occupational profiles of males and females will converge in future
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what percentage of the workforce are women in britain?
45%
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what did dodd suggest?
more muslim women feel they are discriminated in the job market than others, especially those who wear the hijab
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what did roberts suggest about the changes in the economy?
economic and occupational trends in the second half of the twentieth century were relatively kind to women
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what is a reason for this?
feminisation of the workplace
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what does this mean?
more women are entering the workforce, working higher up in the structure, and that the workforce is increasingly seeking skills traditionally associated with femininity such as people skills, empathy, communication skills etc
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what has decreased since the 1970s
horizontal segregation
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what is meant by horizontal segregation?
the division between jobs at the same level, for example men work increasingly in nursing and primary teaching, whilst women now work in higher numbers in traditionally masculine jobs such as transport
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what percentage of nurses are men?
19%
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what did mac an ghail identify?
a crisis of masculinity in britain
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what did he argue?
men were experiencing problems due to male unemployment in traditional working class areas, increasing numbers of young men with a criminal record
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which gender is more likely to commit suicide?
men
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what does deindustrialisation mean?
the decline of manufacturing jobs
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what was the effect of deindustrialisation?
damaging for many young working class men
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what does Mcrobbie and garber suggest?
bedroom culture
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what does gannon suggest?
there is a double disadvantage in old age
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what does dworkin suggest?
women suffer the threat/experience of **** and sexual violence
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what does walter suggest?
hypersexualisation of women
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what does kleeman suggest?
13% of wikipedia editors are women
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Card 2
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sociologists estimate women get paid on average ? percent less than men for the same work
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10%
Card 3
Front
what did the sex discrimination act of 1975 outlaw?
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