We began studying academically successful girls in 2007. Some researchers and the popular media had already been asking “What about the boys?” for over a decade, but the discourse was becoming a runaway train inContinue reading
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Early Career Female Researchers Beware: Message from the Political Studies Women and Politics Group
The Political Studies Women and Politics Group would like to draw your attention to a serious problem potentially affecting the careers of many women academics.
Blaming the women and education again
Is anyone else as sick to death as I am about the reportage of the recent disturbances in London and other English cities?
I feel bad for Sarah Palin
I feel bad for Sarah Palin. Whether she’s in New York sporting a Magen David necklace the size of a Mercedes hood ornament, rewriting Paul Revere’s ride or making yet another garbled, incoherent speech (described onContinue reading
The New Face of Feminism: Caitlin Moran’s How to be a Woman
In 1981 the noted British sociologist Olive Banks published a work called Faces of Feminism: A Study of Feminism as a Social Movement which provided an overview of feminism from the 1840s up to theContinue reading
The e-word now at the heart of English (higher) education
The Third Gender and Education Association Policy Report (July 2011)
Familiar and strange fathers in education
They say ethnographers are supposed to make the strange familiar and the familiar strange. That, however, can be a difficult task since we tend to be ignorant about our own customs and ideologies. For instance,Continue reading
Learner identity, space and Black, working class young women
“It’s almost like she’s two different people; one in English Literature class and another in song-writing club. I’d like to think the second one is the true her” (English teacher, inner London post-16 college) ThisContinue reading
‘Study reveals extent of the Oxbridge divide’: Whatever happened to gender equality?
It is most remarkable that neither the Sutton Trust nor the media have noticed changing forms of inequality in access to elite universities over the last 30 years. Whilst it is true that access toContinue reading
Seedcorn Funding – Would you like a run a GEA event?
All GEA members are eligible to apply for up to £300 of seedcorn funding for a GEA event. Applications for alternative amounts will be considered on their merits. We welcome applications for all practice andContinue reading