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gender inequalities in other areas of social life - Coggle Diagram
gender inequalities in other areas of social life
Males and gender inequalites
there is eviendence that WC men have expiernced a change in their cirumstances over recent years, and in many cases a decline in their life chances. Mac and Gail (1994) referred to a crisis of masculinity brought about by a number of social and economic changes including de-industrisation and feminisation of the labour market. There is a concern that young men have no clear identity or path in life as a result of the growing equality of women, the lack of traditional male jobs and the expectations placed on mean today. This has resulted in many young men displaying their masculinity in anti-social and criminal ways. It's argued that males, particularly from the WC have become unclear about their identity and role in society. The concept has also been used to explain educational underachievement among WC boys.
EDUCATION:
GCSE results consistznlety over a number of years show that girls in the UK gain more A*-C grade GCSES compared to boys
goverment data shows that boys ae twice as likely to have social educational need and twice as likely to have litreacy problems. They are also four times more likely to be excluded from school.
department of education figures since 2008 have shown that white working-class boys are the largest underachieving group in education. the head of Ousted said in 2012 that this was due to their anti-school subculture
tests conducted in 2009 by the programme foe international student assesemnet , carried out by the organisation for economic co-operation and development (OECD) , showed that boys lag a year behind girls at reading in every industrialised country
Health
departement of health data from 2010 showed that on average females are likely to love four years longer than males
the ONS data in 2010 found on average men develop heart disease ten years earlier than women
ONS data in 2011 found the rate of suicide for men is three times that of the number fir women
men are more likely than women to have an alcohol or drug promblem. 67% of the British people who consume alcohol at 'hazardous' levels, and 80% of those dependent on alcohol , are male. Almost three- quarters of people dependent on cannibas and 69% of thioe dependent on other illegal frugs are male (ONS 2011)
Work and income
according to health and safety data collected in the UK, more than 95% of the 200 people killed in the workplace every year are men.
in 2010 the office for national statistics found that men in the UK work an average of 39 hours a week, compared with 34 for women.
David banter, in his book the second sexism (2012), states that the least desirable and most dangerous jobs and those with lease pay and security, remain largely the domain of men.
family life
warin el al (1999)
found frothier study of 95 families in Rochdale that the majority of fathers should be the breadwinner. They found that fathers felt under pressure to provide for their families and this was intensified by demands of teenage children for consumer goods and designer label fashions. Men in low paid jobs and those who were sick, disabled or unemployed were frustrated and sad that they were unable to supply what their family wanted.The study claims that fathers tends to to unrecognised according to there study, fathers nowadays are attempting to juggle the role pf provider with the emotional support role traditionally provided by mothers. Men are turning into 'all singing- all dancing stepdads.
equal opportnities commission In 2007 called
the state of the modern family
based on research tracking 19,000 children born in 2000 and 2001, found that:
fathers are more likely to be employed and to work longer hours than men without dependent children
89% of fathers are in employment compared with 74% of men without dependent children
fathers are less likely to work-part time (4%) than men without children (9%), unlike mothers, who are more likely to work part-time (60%) than women without children (32%)
UK fathers work the longest hours in Europe- an average 46.9 hours per week, compared with 45.5 hours in Portugal, 41.5 hours in gernamny a, 40 hours in Ireland and 35.5 hours in France
around one in eight fathers in Great Britain's work excessively long hours of 60 hours a week or more, and almost 40% of fathers work 48 hours or more a week
fathers working more than 50 hours a week spend less time looking after children than fathers working shorter hours
mens earning are generally higher proportion of the family income than women's can limit the time men re able to spend with children
many empires see flexible working places as something from women
Evaluation of male inequalties
feminists tend to agree that male inequalties are minor in scale compared to those faced by women. according to Natasha Walter (2008). There is more debate to ne had about the sacrifices that men make, but obviously I wouldn't go so far as to say that shows women hold all the cards. you have to look at the structural inequality. Sexism against men doesn't exist in the same way because of the way the system is balanced.
it may be argues that evidence shows that th belabour market continues to favour men and that this is crucial day in which inequality is maintained. in 2012 there were still 13,917,000 makes in full time employment, compared to 7,682,000 females in part time employment.
similarly, evidence shows that the gender pay gap persists and in almost every profession men still earn more on average than women