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The document discusses gender stereotypes and the history of the women's rights movement. It provides statistics showing ongoing gender inequality, such as women earning less pay than men and experiencing high rates of sexual violence. While progress has been made through suffrage movements and laws, stereotypes persist in advertising and media. Achieving full equality requires addressing issues in other parts of the world and learning from strategies that have worked.

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5 Gender Equality Powerpoint

The document discusses gender stereotypes and the history of the women's rights movement. It provides statistics showing ongoing gender inequality, such as women earning less pay than men and experiencing high rates of sexual violence. While progress has been made through suffrage movements and laws, stereotypes persist in advertising and media. Achieving full equality requires addressing issues in other parts of the world and learning from strategies that have worked.

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Gender Equality

Population
Population: Gender Equality

OVERVIEW

• Stereotypes
• History of women’s rights
• Statistics
• Solutions
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.


Population: Gender Equality

GENDER STEREOTYPES
Population: Gender Equality

GENDER STEREOTYPES

• More examples:

– “Like a girl”

– “Be a man”
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
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
Population: Gender Equality

THE SUFFRAGETTES

• The Suffragettes were not welcomed


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


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
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
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)
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
Population: Gender Equality

GENDER IS ALL AROUND US…


Population: Gender Equality

THEN AND NOW


Population: Gender Equality

GENDER IN MODERN ADVERTISING

Current public transport ad

2012 Chinos advertisement


Population: Gender Equality

TOP GOOGLE SEARCHES…

• How to change the conversation?


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

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