Tag: gender equality
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Happy International Women’s Day!
International women’s day campaigns for greater gender equity.
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Parenting, childcare and gender equality
To what extent is there equality in relationships between men and women when it comes to childcare? Some research suggests there is greater gender equality Research by Gayle Kaufman consisting of interviews with 70 American fathers with at least one child under the age of 18 found that between 1977 and 2008 the average American…
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Sylvia Walby: Six Structures of Patriarchy
Wallby’s six structures of patriarchy are paid work, household production, culture, sexuality, violence and the state.
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Is the UK really the 18th most gender equal country in the world?
According to the Global Gender Gap Index, the United Kingdom is one of the most gender equal countries in the world, but if you drill down into the statistics, women and men appear to both more and less equal than the headline data suggests. The BBC’s ‘How equal are you?’ interactive infographic allows you type in…
