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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

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Gender Equality/Inequality In Britain

Female Male

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In the workplace

Female

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20% of MPs are women.

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The rate at which they are progressing in politics is slower than in other areas.

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The commission says it will take 200 years for women to gain equal power in politics, unless the main parties make more effort to redress the balance.

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findings suggest it would take another 20 years before there was equality in the top management of the civil service and 40 years before women were treated equally at director level

f FTSE 100 companies.

The commission has called for a legal

requirement on employers to promote sex equality - and for more senior women to be allowed to work flexible hours.

However many companies argue that

the two sexes want different things in life, and will make different life style choices, which ultimately effects there salary

The report is scathing about EU plans to

ffer pregnant women 20 weeks of

maternity leave on full pay.

Critics argue that generous maternity

provisions make employers wary of taking on women of childbearing age

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Gender inequality begins in

education at 16

May 15 2006 - A report by the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) shows that gender inequality in education and work begins at

sixteen. Girls and boys study most

subjects in roughly equal numbers for GCSE. Girls do very well but

nce their examinations are over

the genders rapidly move towards traditionally 'male' or 'female' subjects. Single sex schools are also very common up until the age of 16 and

18. There is even the opportunity

to go to single sex universities The EOC's earlier investigation into

ccupational segregation at work,

'Free to Choose - Tackling gender barriers to better jobs' reported in March 2005 that many girls and boys were interested in non- traditional choices but were not supported by information and help. The EOC describes this as the start

f a gender split that widens

throughout their lives, with women

ften ending up in lower paid work

at lower levels

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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

Female pay 'unequal' to male colleagues for 57 years

19 August 2010 Last updated, BBC

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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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