1. Gender Equality
Population

2. Population: Gender Equality
OVERVIEW
Stereotypes
History of women’s rights
Statistics
Solutions

3. 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.

4. Population: Gender Equality
GENDER STEREOTYPES

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GENDER STEREOTYPES
More examples:
“Like a girl”
“Be a man”

6. 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

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THE SUFFRAGETTES
Women could not vote before 1920s
In the 1860s they formed ‘Suffragette’ Societies to bring the unfairness of this to light

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THE SUFFRAGETTES
The Suffragettes were not welcomed

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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

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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

11. 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

12. 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)

13. 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

14. Population: Gender Equality
GENDER IS ALL AROUND US…

15. Population: Gender Equality
THEN AND NOW

16. Population: Gender Equality
GENDER IN MODERN ADVERTISING
Current public transport ad
2012 Chinos advertisement

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TOP GOOGLE SEARCHES…
How to change the conversation?

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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