Skills for Study Level 2 Teacher's Book - Cambridge University Press

Malenon-graduateFemalenon-graduate£6/hr £14/hr £14/hr£6/hr £9/hr £10/hrPossible reason for gap in earnings: Women choose university courses andoccupations associated with lower salaries.3eSuggested answers1 According to the lecture, male and female graduates do not earn similarsalaries. The speaker in fact states that by the age of 50, female graduatescan expect pay similar to male non-graduates.2 According to the lecture, despite the fact that female students outnumbermale students, the situation is reversed in the workplace, where males makeup more than 50% of the work force.1.63f Note: In excerpt 3 below, the speaker says About 70% of all education degreesawarded in the UK in 2005 – this is slightly different from Audio 1.5, where thespeaker says About 70% of all education degrees awarded in 2005 … .Suggested answersExcerpt 11 Women are enjoying better career opportunities than ever before.2 In 2008, roughly 70% of all women in the UK were in work, compared to 80%of all UK men. Women make up about 49% of the entire UK workforce.Excerpt 21 They are able to earn a decent salary without having a university qualification.Excerpt 31 Women are concentrated in lower-prestige and lower-salary occupations thanmen because they tend to study university courses which lead them to thesecareers.2 Women took 70% of all education degrees awarded in the UK in 2005, 66%of arts and humanities degrees, and 56% of business and law degrees, about40% of science degrees, and only 25% of engineering degrees. About 25% ofall working women are employed in education, 25% are employed in publicservices.3gSuggested answers1 Women’s career opportunities are the best they have ever been / restricted bytheir choice of university course.2 Men have less incentive to go to university because they can earn a decentsalary without it.3 Women tend to earn lower salaries than men because they go into low-salaryoccupations.3h Group discussionUnit 1 Part A ∙ Understanding spoken information 12