A2 Unit G674 - Exploring Social Inequality and Difference
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Summary OCR ALEVEL SOCIAL INEQUALITY NOTES ON GENDER
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This document contains synoptic bags (A01) from previous topics such as education, media, DC, etc which are used to show inequalities that women and men face in the different areas of society.
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Assignment 15 Synoptic Bags Females
For your new module (H5802B) you will need evidence of inequality based on gender for your 20 markers. For each area, try and ensure you
have two inequalities faced by some females and show a comparison to males. Complete the following tables to ensure you have enough
evidence from our other lessons (Education/Family/ Globalisation and digital world) AND some new reading.
AREA ONE:Work Writer Summary What it says about the inequality faced by some females, trying to
and employ. And name/concepts compare to males
incomeP259 in
the textbook
Evidence One: Fawcett society In the private business sector of employment, the gender this suggests that theres gender inequality regardless of whether
2013 pay gap is 24.8% compared to the public sector, which is women have jobs in the private or public sector and it's showing
gender pay gap
17.1% that the workplace is mainly patriarchal. additionally, this also
attributed to
suggests that theres a glass ceiling as women cant transgress
gender inequality
above an invisible barrier set out for them, this creates inequality
as women don't have equal opportunities as men to earn the
same
Evidence Two: UK feminista Up to 30,000 women are sacked each year simply for being theres inequality between men and women in the workplace as
pregnant and each year an estimated 440,000 women lose women face a motherhood penalty if they were to get pregnant
out on pay or promotion as a result of pregnancy and they are being discriminated against men as they aren't given
an equal opportunity to showcase their talents/expertise. but the
main problem is the failure to hire pregnant women that if they
really needed the money, and did not get any support it might
lead to poverty, additionally this also goes against the equality act
2010 women's identity as being pregnant overrides the fact they
have skills to work (master status)
, Income and Oxfam 2008 The income of retired women is less than 40% of that of theres an inequality of income between elderly women and men.
wealth P 259-260 retired men Since these are elderly women getting paid less they may be
in the textbook reliant on that money to fund necessities and it might lead to
Evidence one: poverty whereas the men get more income which is unfair.
pay gap in
income
Evidence Two: UN 2014 Women comprise more than 50% of the world’s population this suggests that theres an unequal distribution of wealth
but own only 1% of the world’s wealth between men and women
AREA TWO: Writer Summary What it says about the inequality faced by some females, trying
name/concepts to compare to males
Education (from
Ed lessons)
Evidence One: spender found boys got more teacher attention than girls, unfair as theres an unequal distribution of teachers prioritizing boys more
it reinforced gender inequality and teachers prepared to than girls this is because teachers see boys as immature and
prioritization of respond to boys' questions more etc spend more time with them to help correct their behaviour but
boys
girls’ need in education is minimised by focusing more on boys
Evidence Two: institute for -girls are pushed into gendered subjects such as literature- this shows that theres inequalities between girls and boys as
physics 2013 based subjects like English etc whereas boys have more teachers have lower expectations of girls, so they put more time
teacher
support from teachers and due to the different into teaching boys
expectations of
expectations girls in the classroom are often neglected
women
AREA THREE: Writer Name Summary What it says about the inequality faced by some females, trying
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