3. Population: Gender Equality
STEREOTYPES
• Stereotypes are oversimplified ideas of a
particular type of person (or idea, or place) that
many people believe are true.
• They are often negative.
6. Population: Gender Equality
HISTORY
• Women were seen as less than men
• Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy
head, thy sovereign . . .
• Women couldn’t stand up
for themselves
7. Population: Gender Equality
THE SUFFRAGETTES
• Women could not vote before 1920s
• In the 1860s they formed ‘Suffragette’ Societies
to bring the unfairness of this to light
9. Population: Gender Equality
VOTES FOR WOMEN
• In 1918 Women finally got the vote, but not fully
until the 1920s – and still not everybody agreed
with this.
A 1920 anti-Suffragettes postcard
10. Population: Gender Equality
AFTER THE VOTE
1920: Women could become lawyers
1922: Women could inherit property
1929: Women became ‘persons’ by law
1970: Equal Pay Act makes it illegal to pay women at
different rates
1980 : Women allowed to borrow in their own
name
1994: It becomes illegal for a husband to rape his
wife
11. Population: Gender Equality
SOME STATISTICS
• Are we equal?
• The workplace:
• Women earn less (10% for full-time and 34% for part-
time work)
• 70% of minimum wage jobs are done by women
• 55% of women take part in the labour market
12. Population: Gender Equality
SOME STATISTICS
• One area of gender equality - body image :
• Feeling bad about their appearance made 16% of girls
avoid going to school and 20% avoid giving an opinion
in public
• 20% of boys are extremely concerned about their
weight, leading to depression and / or drug use
(increasing use of steroids in young men leading to
many side effects)
13. Population: Gender Equality
SOME STATISTICS
• Education:
• 20% of girls put off science because it’s “for boys”
• 90% of nurses are female (but men earn 5% more)
• Sexual violence:
• 1 in 3 teen girls experienced sexual violence from a
boyfriend
• 1 in 3 girls experience sexual bullying in school on a
daily basis
18. Population: Gender Equality
TASKS
• These facts and images have ALL been drawn from
‘developed’ westernised countries
• Look for examples of equality / inequality in other areas
of the world
• Look for strategies that are working
