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OVERVIEW

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

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GENDER STEREOTYPES
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GENDER STEREOTYPES

• More examples:

– “Like a girl”

– “Be a man”

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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
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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
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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)
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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
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GENDER IS ALL AROUND US…

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THEN AND NOW

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