VIC Women at work

Description: 
Topics for discussion
1. Compared men´s and women´s wages for the same job.
2. Compared wages in female-dominated and male-dominated sectors.
3.How to get boys interested in female-dominated fields?
4. How to get girls interested in male -dominated fields?
5. What are the opportunities for women to advance in working life?
 

Results : Memorandum
In Finland women's salary is still lower that's men's, even at the same job. Also in female-dominated fields the salary is lower than in male-dominated. But over the past years the situation has equaled out and the chances of women advancing in their careers are quite good.
Why women get less paid? 
1. Traditions: women took care of the children and men went to work. 
2. Child care and other nursing work are not valued in money.
How to make all more equal?
1. Job applications without names and genders. 2. In films, the roles should be more equal.
3. At school and at home, girls and boys should be treated equally. 4. Political decisions

Memorandum: Women at work

class 7A:

• In Finland women's salary is still lower that's men's, even at the same job.

• Also, women's field in work salary is worse that's men's.

• But over the past few years the situation has equaled out.

Why?

• Traditions: women took care of children at home and men went to work.

• Different attitudes

• Girls and boys are expected to act and behave differently

Memorandum: Women at work

class 9b:

Why?

• Women do a lot of nursing and teaching work and these are not paid as well as in industry

• Do to childcare women´s work experience is often shorter.

• Women still find it difficult to get leadership positions.

• Although the chances of women advancing in their careers are nowadays better.

• How can we make things more equal?

  ->Raising salaries in female-dominated sectors
• ->Job applications without names and gender
• ->The film industry would portray genders on an equal footing