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Gender
- Workplace
- Horizontal segregation -
traditional male and
female jobs
- Differences due to being
socialised differently, learning
different subjects at school,
and women being
discriminated in male jobs
- Differences due to being
socialised differently, learning
different subjects at school,
and women being
discriminated in male jobs
- Gender gap - men earn
more even in same job
- Men in charge
of promotion
discriminate
women
- Division of labour - men are breadwinners,
women only work for extra luxuries
- Men in charge
of promotion
discriminate
women
- Sexism - sex discrimination
- Sex Discrimination Act 1975 -
bans discrimination
- Sex Discrimination Act 1975 -
bans discrimination
- Having children affects women
- Glass ceiling - invisible
barrier preventing them
from getting promoted
- Glass ceiling - invisible
barrier preventing them
from getting promoted
- Horizontal segregation -
traditional male and
female jobs
- Education
- Girls - do better in school
- In the past, men
thought girls didn't
need a good
education because
they will be
housewives and
mothers
- Rise in
achievement due
to awareness of
gender issues and
girls having higher
expectations
- In the past, men
thought girls didn't
need a good
education because
they will be
housewives and
mothers
- Boys - underachieving
- Less male jobs,
more service jobs
which are seen
feminine
- Laddish anti
learning culture
- being teased
by peers
- Lower literacy levels
as reading in seen a
female hobby
- Lack of male role models
in primary school
- Less male jobs,
more service jobs
which are seen
feminine
- Girls - do better in school
- Life chances
- Women are more
downwardly mobile than
upwardly mobile because
children interrupt careers
- Double shift - women work full
time and do housework/childcare
- Crime - women less
convicted but more likely
to be victims of rape
- Health - men have shorter lives
but women suffer more ill health
- Women likely to do
unpaid careers in
caring sick, elderly,
disbaled
- Women are more
downwardly mobile than
upwardly mobile because
children interrupt careers
- Genderquake
- Sue Sharpe - In the past girls
saw futures in terms of marriage
and children not careers
- Changing aspirations - careers
were more important, amounted
in basic shift in gender relations
(genderquake)
- Changing aspirations - careers
were more important, amounted
in basic shift in gender relations
(genderquake)
- Ladettes -
women behaving
like men were a
new role model
- Can-Do girls -
increasing
confidence and
high standards
- Girl Power - feeling created by
role models in popular culture
- Might be achieved but hasn't been
achieved yet
- Sue Sharpe - In the past girls
saw futures in terms of marriage
and children not careers
- Men
- Disadvantages -
shorter life, more stress
to support family, not
valued as parents, hard
to do female jobs
- Fewer secure
jobs - unsure if
able to support
family
- Men are under
more suspicion of
domestic violence
- Children brought up
without father figure
so men not important
- Peer pressure -
can't be effeminate,
must be macho
- Changing roles
- New Man - anti-sexist,
faithful, considerate, willing
to do housework/childcare
- New Lad - sexist, like men used to be
- New Man - anti-sexist,
faithful, considerate, willing
to do housework/childcare
- Disadvantages -
shorter life, more stress
to support family, not
valued as parents, hard
to do female jobs
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