Social Inequality in victorian england

Social Inequality in victorian england

1. Lower wages for women

   • Because they werent seen as the 'bread winner' or the dominant sex
   • Women were given unskilled jobs
     • Men with high social standing and royal status would be paid high amounts fortheir contribution towards society
       • Men always dealt with the money whether if its taxes for rationing men had most contol over society

2. Children satarted work at the age of 5 unless they were royal

3. segregation between genders

   • Women were allowed to attend some universities
     • English literature was recommend for women whereas latin was suitable for men

4. BIRTH

   • Birth rate was very high in the victorian times because contraception was not introduce and not lots women would have careers so big familis of the poor was very popular