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Tag: equality

  • Do bad exam results matter?

    Results day tomorrow, and I predict that Social Media will be full of comments by celebrities telling students that exam results don’t matter that much because ‘I failed my exams, but I still found success’. This happened last year during The Guardian’s live chat following the release of  the 2016 GCSE results. The chat even supplied a…

  • Should we be Concerned about the Gender Pay Gap at the BBC?

    The BBC recently revealed the salaries of stars earning more than £150,000, and two-thirds of them are male, only a third female. So the very high income earner male-female ratio at the BBC is 2:1. Where the highest incomes are concerned, there is an enormous disparity between the highest earning male and the highest earning…

  • Gender Equality in Rwanda

    Rwanda makes an interesting case study of a developing nation which appears to have atypically high levels of gender equality. It ranks no 7 in the Gender Empowerment Index, just behind the Nordic countries, and actually has a higher proportion of girls enrolled in education than boys (97% compared to 95%). Given that East and North…

  • The radical feminist perspective on power and control in relationships

    The Radical Feminist viewpoint is that relationships are the primary means through which men control women and maintain their power over them in society. Probably the most shocking evidence which supports this view is the continued prevalence of domestic violence. According to the BCS (2007) this accounts for a sixth of all violent crime and…

  • Family diversity by ethnicity in the UK

    How does family life vary by ethnicity in the UK today?