Women in the Professions

Women in the Professions

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Details

Location

Belfast

Year

1987

Date

Production 05/03/1987

Length

02min 32sec

Audio

sound

Format

Betacam SP

colour

Source

Digitised as part of the BFI Heritage 2022 project.

Courtesy

British Film Institute, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

It is illegal to download, copy, print or otherwise utilise in any other form this material, without written consent from the copyright holder.

Description

The Equal Opportunities Commissiom publishes a report that finds women have to work harder than men to achieve in their careers. Five professions were sampled and in each men were found to dominate senior posts. Legislation is in place to deal with, but informal attitudes are more significant.

The worst offender was medicine, notably in specialist areas such as surgery and gynecology. There was also an imbalance in teaching, where a majority of primary school teachers are women, yet men typically take senior positions, such as principals.

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.
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