Gender Equality/Inequality In Britain Female Male
In the workplace Female 20% of MPs are women. The commission has called for a legal requirement on employers to promote The rate at which they are sex equality - and for more senior progressing in politics is slower than women to be allowed to work flexible in other areas. hours. The commission says it will take 200 However many companies argue that years for women to gain equal power the two sexes want different things in life, in politics, unless the main parties and will make different life style choices, make more effort to redress the which ultimately effects there salary balance. The report is scathing about EU plans to findings suggest it would take another offer pregnant women 20 weeks of 20 years before there was equality in maternity leave on full pay. the top management of the civil service and 40 years before women Critics argue that generous maternity were treated equally at director level provisions make employers wary of of FTSE 100 companies. taking on women of childbearing age
Gender inequality begins in education at 16 May 15 2006 - A report by the Equal The EOC's earlier investigation into Opportunities Commission (EOC) occupational segregation at work, shows that gender inequality in 'Free to Choose - Tackling gender education and work begins at barriers to better jobs' reported in sixteen. Girls and boys study most March 2005 that many girls and subjects in roughly equal numbers boys were interested in non- for GCSE. Girls do very well but traditional choices but were not once their examinations are over supported by information and help. the genders rapidly move towards The EOC describes this as the start traditionally 'male' or 'female' of a gender split that widens subjects. throughout their lives, with women often ending up in lower paid work Single sex schools are also very at lower levels common up until the age of 16 and 18. There is even the opportunity to go to single sex universities
Female pay 'unequal' to male colleagues for 57 years - 19 August 2010 Last updated, BBC . The gap between male and female salaries is set to continue Women managers in the UK face a wait of 57 years for their salaries to equal their male colleagues, a study says. Female managers' pay rose by 2.8% in the last 12 months, but on average they earned £10,000 less than male managers. The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) said that at the current rate, women managers will not be paid the same as men for 57 years. The survey of more than 43,000 managers in 200 organisations found the worst pay difference was in the Midlands. In that region, the average pay gap stands at £10,434. The smallest gap in pay between genders - £8,955 - was found in the north-east of England. And the pay gap even existed at junior management level, with men being paid at least £1,000 more than women executives, the survey said. Women face the probability of working for around 40 years in the shadow of unequal pay
Domestic Gender Inequality Men in England and Whales aged between 20-24 are just as likely to suffer from domestic violence http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlWQrxVF J7M
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