Tag: Gender
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Five Reasons Women Don’t Get Promoted
Five reasons why women are less likely to get promoted than men include discrimination, caring responsibilities, lack of vertical networks, lack of self-confidence and ‘positive choice’ – at least according to Professor Tom Schuller in his recent book ‘The Paula Principle: How and Why Women Work Below Their Level of Confidence‘. The context of this…
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Gender Equality in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia is well known for its high levels of gender inequality – and this week, Janice Turner pointed out that it is the only nation, in ‘flagrant disregard of the Olympic Charter, that will not be sending any women to the games. The rational for this is that exercise, according to the Saudi Religious Police,…
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Explaining Increasing Female Crime in the later half of the 20th Century: The Liberationist Perspective
Freda Adler proposed that the emancipation of women and increased economic opportunities for women lead to an increase in the female crime rate. Her basic idea was that as women attain social positions similar to men, and as the employment patterns of men and women become similar, so too do their related crimes. Adler claimed…
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12 Facts about Gender Inequality
Evidence from Kat Banyard (2010) The equality illusion– the truth about women and men today, Faber and Faber. Today it is normal for women to worry about their looks. Girls have starkly different relationships to their bodies than boys – they put greater emphasis on how attractive their bodies are to others – for boys…
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Gender Norms and Stereotypes – A Visual Representation
Men are simple and straightforward: they just want quick sex with porn-star lookalikes, exaggerate the number of sexual partners they have to gain status and need women to give them space to get on with the important matters of football, beer and sleeping. Women are more complex. They prefer wining, dining and love-making, feel the need…
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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…
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Explaining the Changing Patterns of Marriage
The main trend in marriage in the UK is that of long term decline. This post examines some of the reasons behind this, such as changing gender roles, the increasing cost of living and individualisation
