This document summarizes evidence of gender inequalities and reasons for their existence. It shows that women earn less than men on average, are more likely to live in low-income households, and predominantly fill caring roles. Women also face barriers like the "glass ceiling" that limits their career progression. While progress has been made, full equality may take over 50 years at the current rate.

1. What we will cover:
- Evidence of gender inequalities
- Reasons why these inequalities
exist
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2. 22% MPs are
women
33% MSPs are
women
Women earn
around 80% of a Women currently spend
males salary 2x as much time on
housework and
childcare as men
More girls than
boys achieve 5
or more Highers 11% of FTSE 100
and 1st class Female directorships are
degrees graduates earn held by women
15% less than
their male
counterparts

3. WHY?
 Women earn, on average, less than
men
 Women are 14% more likely than men
to live in households with low incomes
 Most lone parents are women
 Most pensioners are women
 Women have a traditional role as the
carer
 Women are more dependant upon
benefits
 Women experience a ‘glass ceiling’
when it comes to career progression.

4. Low Pay and Gender
• Women far more likely to be in low
paid jobs than men.
• Role as carer prevents them from
perusing a career and often leads
to part time and low paid work.
• The average income for a women is
around £75 per week less than a
man.
• The lowest paid sector ‘Public
Sector’ (sales, health care, hotel
and restaurant work, cleaning)
comprises of 80% women. 5 C’s.

5. The rate of
narrowing of
the gender
pay gap
predicts that
it will take
over 50 years
for female
pay to be
equal to male.

7. •Term used to describe an ‘invisible’
barrier that prevents women from
rising the top of their chosen
career.
•Has been progress but women are
still poorly represented at the top
levels of management and decision
making in the UK (3%executive
directors, 7% high court judges) .
•Women are concentrated in
particular areas of the workforce
(79% of admin and secretarial jobs
are done by women) which tend to
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8.  Career breaks mean that women may lose
ground that is hard to make up.
 On return, skills may be outdated and they
may have missed valuable experience that
male colleagues may have gained.
 Alongside this, women may be discriminated
against as men dominate the higher ranks of
employment.
 Few role models. Negative idea of women in
control?

9. Sex and Power Report
(2011) – Charts women’s
progress in top jobs in
public and private sectors.
While women make
progress in some sectors,
that progress regularly
stalls or even reverses in
others.

10. Have things improved?

11. Its not all bad news…
• Flexible working hours are allowing more
women to remain working after having
children.
• More women attending further and
higher education.
• Gender pay gap has narrowed and many
women in powerful positions. Eilish Angiolini, the Lord
Advocate for Scotland.
Norma Graham,
Scotland's first
female Chief Susan Rice, Chief
Constable. Executive of Lloyds
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