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Tag Archives: Gender
Gender and Education: Good Resources
Useful links to quantitative and qualitative research studies, statistics, researchers, and news paper articles relevant to gender and education. These links should be of interest to students studying A-level and degree level sociology, as well as anyone with a general … Continue reading
Posted in education, Gender
Tagged education, equality, Gender, Methods, qualitative, quantitative, research, socialisation
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Saudi women behind the wheel… A genuine step towards female liberation?
On the 24th of June 2018, Saudi Arabia finally allowed women the freedom to drive, and more than 120 000 Saudi women have already put in applications for driving licences. This change is part of ‘Vision 2030’, a package of … Continue reading
Top five worst explanations for not appointing women to company boards…
While some progress has been made to breaking down near total male control and dominance of our top companies, the move towards greater gender equality at the top end of the economy is slowing, and today almost a 100 out … Continue reading
Men enjoy 2 years more leisure time than women, over the course of a working life
Men are enjoying more leisure time than they did 15 years ago, while women have less. according to the latest stats from the Office for National Statistics. In 2015 Men spent 43 hours a week on leisure activities, up from … Continue reading
Posted in Families and Households, Sex and gender
Tagged division of labour, domestic, equality, Gender, lesiure, men, sex, survey, women
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Analyse two reasons why women remain economically disadvantaged compared to men despite the increase in the gender gap in educational achievement (10)
Using material from item A and elsewhere, analyse two reasons why women remain economically disadvantaged compared to men despite the increase in the gender gap in educational achievement (10) Item A Girls have been outperforming boys in education for 30 … Continue reading
Posted in A level sociology exam practice, Exams and revision advice
Tagged education, feminism, Gender, subject choice
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How equal are men and women in relationships these days? Student survey results
Women who do the lioness’s share of the housework, but men and women seem to have equal control over the finances, at least according to two surveys conduct by my A Level sociology students last week. This acts as a … Continue reading
Posted in Families and Households, Feminism, Sex and gender, surveys
Tagged domestic division of labour, equality, families, Gender, households, housework, Socrative, surveys
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Conceptualising Gender Equality in Relationships
A brief revision map of some of the main sociological concepts which have been developed to describe the ‘typical relationship’: taken together, they suggest a movement towards greater gender equality in relationships: This is the briefest of revision slides on … Continue reading
Posted in Sex and gender
Tagged AQA, equality, families, Gender, households, nuclear, revision notes, roles, Sociology
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Man Disconnected
Amid shifting social, economic and technological climates, young men are getting left behind, at least according to Philip Zimbardo and Nikita D. Coulombe in their 2015 book ‘Man Disconnected: How the Digital Age is Changing Young Men Forever‘. The two … Continue reading
On that Lewis Hamilton ‘Gender Shaming Video’
You may remember Lewis Hamilton posting a 12 second video of himself teasing his nephew about ‘wearing a princess dress’ at Christmas, basically telling him that ‘boys don’t wear princess dresses’. And he got a lot of stick about ‘gender … Continue reading