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

Women are oftenenrolled on lessprestigious courseswhich tend to lead tolower salaries aftergraduation.OECD (2005) – 76%all education degrees,and 66% all arts andhumanities degreesawarded to women;40% of all sciencedegrees and only26% of engineeringdegrees go to women.1d See 1e for answers.1.21eAnswersArea Claim EvidenceSalaryJob satisfactionMen earn highersalaries than women.Women have higherjob satisfaction thanmen.No evidence givenBender et al. (2005) – of 1800adults interviewed, womenhad higher job satisfactionoverall.1f Student discussion1gSuggested answersb1hSuggested answers1.3Speaker A (Bruce)Claim 1There is some inequality infavour of women in highereducation.Speaker B (Anna)Claim 1There is an imbalance in thetype of subject that men andwomen study, with morewomen on ‘soft’ courses.Claim 2The number of senioracademic staff who arewomen is very low, comparedto the number of men.Supporting dataAccording to the OECD, more women thanmen have been enrolled in higher educationsince the beginning of the 21st century.In 2000, 52% of students were female.In 2005, 54% of students were female.The percentage is growing all the time: inthe OECD in the 1980s, less than 50% ofstudents were female, but over half are now.According to an OECD report, womenaccount for the following:only 26% of engineering degrees66% of all arts and humanities degrees76% of all education degrees.Study by Jasbir Singh – in the UK, just over10% of all professors are women.Just over 30% of senior lecturers arewomen.Unit 1 Part A ∙ Understanding spoken information 9