This year will mark 100 years since the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison was killed after running in front of the King’s horse at the Derby. A campaign has just been launched to institute a minute’s silence at theContinue reading
Category: Issues
The sexually available versus the crooks; gender and HIV prevention education in Mozambique
The cynic in me was not surprised to find that young women in Mozambique experienced sexual harassment in schools. I had thought carefully about this eventuality prior to setting out to Mozambique to gather dataContinue reading
Autumn Financial Statement – Uncaring and Unequal
The UK Women’s Budget Group responds to the Chancellor’s Autumn Financial Statement: “Today’s announcement offers nothing for women striving and working hard to take care of children, disabled and frail elderly relatives. The Chancellor spokeContinue reading
Inclusion and Gender Equity in Education: A Conference at the Institute for Educational Development, Aga Khan University
Dar es Salaam, 14 – 16 November 2012 GEA Policy Report Share on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Email to a friend
Into the Woods
As a practicing middle school English Language Arts teacher and researcher in the Northeastern US, I am interested in the stories adolescents tell about their lives. To this end, my research in classrooms is ethnographic andContinue reading
In Memoriam: Eva Figes
Eva Figes, the author of Patriarchal Attitudes, died aged 80 in August 2012. Her book was published to popular British acclaim alongside several other signature books of women’s liberation, including The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer andContinue reading
An Update: The Women’s Library
This is to report on what is happening to The Women’s Library, a resource that was set up over 75 years ago as the Fawcett Library in central London. It moved to premises in theContinue reading
Promoting Equality: UK Feminista
GEA Policy Report Autumn 2012 UK Feminista is a relatively new organization of ‘ordinary women and men campaigning for gender equality’. Founded just over 2 years ago, it has wide and international aims, namely a ‘visionContinue reading
‘Keeping it Real’: teenage girls and everyday feminism
It is an overcast Friday in mid-October as the Cardiff University contingent (that’s us!) pull up outside a rated-but-dated business hotel in Newport; we are attending the #KeepingItReal conference for teenage girls, run by theContinue reading
Ester McGeeney on ‘Collisions, Coalitions and Riotous Subjects: The Riots One Year On’
A Conference Report for GEA At the end of last month I started my week with a colleague from Sussex University, a few of our new masters students and a trip to the CLF theatreContinue reading
