Statistics/laws/sociologists

• Equal pay act 1970
• sex discrimination act 1975
• equality act 2010
• currently girls outperform boys at GCSE and degree level
• only 30% of women are MPs
• 8% of CEOs are women according to Financial times stock exchange
• Yougov survey 2018 - 43% of women between 18-34 have experienced sexual harassment in public places
• research has found canalisation has a direct link with you job

  • 80% of science research,engineering and technology jobs are performed by males
  • 80% of caring, administrative and secretarial jobs are done by females
• in April 2017 it stated that companies that have over 250 members should show how much each employee is paid and their role
• Ann Oakley

  • believed that family contributed to 4 ways of socialising their child into a gender
  • canalisation - teaching children via toys
  • verbal apellations - the way in which a parent speaks to a child determines if they are a male or female
  • manipulation - parents will encourage or discourage certain behaviours
  • different activities - boys may play football with dad whilst the girl may be baking with mum
• margaret mead

  • she did research in New Guinea with 3 different tribes to see if gender roles were universal
  • she found that gender roles are not universal
  • Tchambuli tribes the women was in managerial role whereas the man reared the children and wore makeup and dressed up for women
• feral/unsocialised children

  • Oxana
  • Genie
  • Danielle Lierow