Tory cuts – encouraging a return to the traditional family?
Tory cuts are unfairly disadvantaging women, according to this article in the Guardian, which is akin to encouraging a return to the traditional family with the male breadwinner role. The article draws...
View ArticleFemale PhDs 3* less likely to become professors than male Phds
Across Europe 45 per cent of PhDs are done by women, yet 20 per cent of male academics are top-grade professors while the corresponding rate for women is only 7 per cent. This article in The Times HE...
View ArticleTop Ten Resources for Teaching Gender and Development
OK – Only up to 5 – but I’ve really got to down the pub, and I really wanted to post something before I left! These are in rough order of how much I like them – If you prefer other sites then let me...
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Gender representation in the FTSE
Latest Figures show that there are now 163 women in executive positions in the FTSE 100 and 189 in the FTSE 250. While this does represent an increase on 2010 figures (an additional 25 women being...
View ArticleTen Indicators of Gender Inequality in the UK 2012
OK So accuse me of selection bias… but here are 10 indicators of inequality in the UK by gender… Mainly focusing on work, politics and the media Looking at ‘positions of privilege’ women account for…...
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Using twitter to research sexism
Just stumbled across an interesting use of twitter – I’m not sure exactly what time it started but sometime today (the first tweets originate from 8 Hrs ago, so it must have started circa 12.00 GMT)...
View ArticleExploring the reasons for Rwanda’s unusually high degree of gender equality
Rwanda makes an interesting case study of a developing nation which appears to have atypically high levels of gender equality. It ranks no 7 in the Gender Empowerment Index, just behind the Nordic...
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Gender and Education – Evaluating the Role of Out of School Factors (draft one)
One of the out of school factors which could explain why girls do better than boys in education is that girls have higher aspirations than boys. Here’s some recent research which supports this while...
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How do women’s earnings effect the domestic division of labour?
In this Thinking Allowed Podcast Laurie Taylor interviews Clare Lyonette from the University of Warwick about whether men are more likely to do their fare share of the housework when women earn more....
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Sex selective abortion and generation xy
A few updates on sex selection – this is pretty strong evidence of how technology is being used to reinforce patriarchal systems in the developing world… Also a good example of how aid can have...
View ArticleBBC3 – Devoted to spreading The Beauty Myth…
While the primary function of BBC1 appears to spreading neoliberal hegemony, – so BBC3 seems to be increasingly devoted to perpetuating the beauty myth – at least if Wednesday’s current schedule is...
View Article‘Honour’ Killings and ‘Honour’ crime on the increase
Reflecting on these may make you a bit less sympathetic to to the moral relitivism of Postmodernism – and a bit more sympathetic with the idea that Feminism might just still be relevant in today’s...
View ArticleChanges to child maintenance policy adds insult to injury to victims of...
Shocking strap line from a recent Guardian article – worth passing on! Broad support for the radical feminist view that the government isn’t really interested in putting up money to actually support...
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To Pole or not to Pole, is that Objectification?
My sixth form college (16-19) has just started ‘pole fitness’ classes and put this very large banner up to advertise them. The college’s take on this is to see ‘pole-fitness’ on a level with Zumba –...
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The Gender Pay Gap – A Brief Analysis
This chart shows what most of us would regard as a generally positive trend – the decline in the gender pay gap – which is down to 9% for full-time workers, and even lower for part-time workers....
View ArticleTory cuts – encouraging a return to the traditional family?
Tory cuts are unfairly disadvantaging women, according to this article in the Guardian, which is akin to encouraging a return to the traditional family with the male breadwinner role. The article draws...
View ArticleFemale PhDs 3* less likely to become professors than male Phds
Across Europe 45 per cent of PhDs are done by women, yet 20 per cent of male academics are top-grade professors while the corresponding rate for women is only 7 per cent. This article in The Times HE...
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Using twitter to research sexism
Just stumbled across an interesting use of twitter – I’m not sure exactly what time it started but sometime today (the first tweets originate from 8 Hrs ago, so it must have started circa 12.00 GMT)...
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