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SEX/GENDER
AUSTRALIA HAS A PERSISTENT GENDER PAY GAP. IN MAY 2013, THE AUSTRALIAN
GENDER PAY GAP WAS 1 7.5%.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA HAS THE LARGEST GENDER PAY GAP OF ANY STATE OR TERRITORY
IN AUSTRALIA. AS OF AUGUST 2010, IT WAS 24 PERCENT, REPRESENTING A GAP
BETWEEN AVERAGE WEEK LY ORDINARY TIME MALE AND FEMALE EARNING S.
EFFECTS OF RACISM
DIMINISHED MORALE
Unwilling to participate or take risks in learning for fear of retribution or ridicule if they
make a mistake.
LOWER PRODUCTIVITY
Students who are disaffected with school are less likely to attend school regularly and are
likely to drop out of school earlier. Alienation & disengagement from schooling and
absenteeism & attendance will increase significantly in schools with a high incidence of
racism/s
BASED ON:
INCOME
EDUCATION
OCCUPATION
Equal Opportunity concentrates on treating all people equally and providing people
with equal rights.
Treating everyone the same ≠ equitable treatment.
Social justice recognises that there are situations where application of same rules
can generate unequal results.
Equity requires us to think in terms of different treatment
EQUALITY VS EQUITY
Equality Equity
everyone is treated the same people are treated according to their needs
Lack of success is ‘their’ own fault and the result of low aspirations
Intergenerational failure is to be expected
Reason for students’ disaffection is that they are simply troublemakers who are
insolent and talk back
Students are uneducable and incapable of academic abstract learning and suited
only for unskilled menial, insecure and poorly paid work.
2. AVOID DEFICIT THINKING
Focus on what students CAN do and know, rather than what students lack.
3. AVOID ESSENTIALISING