female disadvantage
Cards (6)
- Study by the office for national statistics 2013:
- Men with children are more likely to work than those without
- More men tend to work in the professional occupations than women
- Women dominate employment within the caring and leisure occupations
- Female graduates are more likely to work in a slightly lower skilled occupation than men
- Area of disadvantage: Workplace
- Office for national statistics: There is a 20% pay gap, and at an hourly rate there is a 10.2% difference, all within the same job type
- 2022 Gender equality in the workplace by Randstad - 67% of women had experienced inappropriate behaviour from male colleagues
- Fawcett society 2013: Self employed women earn 40% less than self employed men and Only 11.1% of UK bank CEOs are women.
- UK Feminista: Up to 300,000 women are sacked each year for being pregnant & each year an estimated 440,000 women lose out on pay or promotion as a result of pregnancy
- Area of disadvantage: Income and pay
- ONS: even though women make up majority of secretarial jobs, they are paid 48% less than men.
- UK Feminista: For each year a mother is absent from work, her future wages reduce by 5%.
- Low pay commission 2007: 70% of people in national minimum wage jobs are women
- Oxfam 2008: 22% of women, compared to 14% of men have a persisent low income
- Area of disadvantage: Family
- IPPR 2012: 8/10 married women do the majority of the housework, 1/10 men doing more, and 1/10 women and men doing the same amount.
- Poverty:
- Prudential 2011, Survey of 10,00 adults - 25% women will be living below the poverty line compared to 12% of men.
- Global citizen 2014 - Women make up half the worlds population and represent 70% of the worlds poor.
- Social mobility:
- Savage 2011 - 40% of men were more likely to climb the career ladder than women
- Equality & Human rights commission 2011: Decrease in womens participation in 10 sectors of employment, including editors of national newspapers, members of the cabinet & local authority council leaders