Relevant Research

• UK Feminista, benefits - Income/wealth


  State benefit cuts disproportionately affect W bc benefits = 1/5 their income compared to M's 1/10
• Low Pay Commission, 2007 - Income/wealth

  70% ppl in min. wage jobs = W
• United Nations, 2014 - Income/wealth

  W own 1% of wealth despite being 50% of population.
• UK Feminista, mothers - Income/wealth


  Every year a mothers away from work, future wages dec. by 5%
• Who said this: M w/ kids more likely to work than those without - opposite for W.

  ONS
• Who said this: M more likely to work in professional positions (associated w/ more pay) than W?

  ONS
• Who said W more likely to work in caring + leisure professions?

  ONS
• UK Feminista - Work/employment

  30,000+ W sacked ILLEGALLY for being pregnant every year
• Global Citizen, 2014 - Poverty

  W= 50% of global pop. but 70% of world's poor
• Department of Work & Pensions - Poverty

  • 52% of kids living in lone-parent families are poor
  • 90% lone-parent families headed by W
• Women's Budget Group - Poverty

  W/Mothers often go without basic necessities like food, clothing + warmth to protect families from full impact of inadequate income.
• The Trussell Trust - Poverty

  Poverty affects M/W diff.ly; W often go hungry to feed kids instead
• Li & Devine - Social mobility

  W less likely to be upwardly mobile/more likely to be downwardly mobile than M
• Savage, 2011 - Social mobility

  M 40% more likely than W to climb career ladder
• GCSE results - Education

  Girls get more A*-C grades than boys
• Gov. data - Education

  • Boys 2x more likely to have Special Educational Needs
  • 2x more likely to have literacy problems
  • 4x more likely to be excluded from school
• Dep. of Education, 2008 - Education

  White WC boys = largest under-achieving group in education; Ofsted said this was attributed to their anti-skl subs.
• Dep. of Health, 2010 - Health

  On avg. W live 4 years longer than M
• ONS - Health

  • On avg. M develop heart disease 10 years earlier than W
  • M significantly more likely to have substance abuse problem
  • 80% of the 67% of the pop. who consume dangerous lvls of alcohol are male.