Tag: Gender
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Women are Receiving more Online Abuse than Ever…
Social Media can be a toxic place for women who are getting more online hate than ever, while companies such as Facebook prefer to profit from this trend rather than protect the female victims, and the police lack the expertise (or the resources/ willpower) to do anything about it either. This is based on research…
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Hidden Girls – A Documentary on the Exploitation of Girls in Gangs
Gangs in the UK are increasingly ‘recruiting’ very young girls, as young as 10, to hold and run drugs and weapons for them and, for the even more unfortunate, to use as sex-slaves. It seems that girls are very much the victims within gangs, as they have very little chance of moving up the gang…
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Sociological Research on Life Imprisonment
A life sentence in jail is the most severe form of punishment the English Criminal Justice System can hand out, and the number of people serving life imprisonment in England and Wales has increased in the last few decades, but how do those sentenced to a Life-term in jail cope? This recent Thinking Allowed Podcast…
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Teenage girls think there’s a lot of sexual harassment in schools, but is there?!?
A recent OFSTED report on sexual harassment in schools and colleges examined the extent of sexual harassment in schools, but to my mind it tells us very little about the actual extent of sexual harassment in schools. The researchers visited 32 schools and colleges and interviewed 900 students about their experiences of sexual harassment, and…
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Explaining lower female crime rates: biological theories
Do biological differences between men and women explain why women commit much less crime than men? Biological Theories explain the higher rates of crime in terms of biological differences between males and females. The most obvious example of such a theory is that men have higher testosterone levels than women and thus have higher levels…
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Gender and Crime Statistics
The latest available figures are from Women and the Criminal Justice System 2019, published by the Ministry of Justice in November 2020. The figures show that women commit less crime than men, and less serious crimes than men. This is an important update for the gender and crime topic which makes up part of the…
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People Centred Development Applied to Gender
People Centred Development Theorists favour small-scale ‘ground up’ projects which focus on improving aspects of the day to day lives of women. They point out that women in developing countries are more than capable of promoting gender equality themselves, from the ground up, and don’t necessarily need the help of the World Bank or the…
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The Gyaan Centre:
The Gyaan Centre is a new school for girls soon to be opened in Rajasthan, India. Rajasthan is one of the most conservative states in India, with women and girls still being limited to very traditional roles – many girls are still married off early and then their only prospect is to be tied to…
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The Incredible Sexism of James Bond
I’ve been watching a few of the old James Bond movies since they’ve been on ITV recently. A few weeks ago I watched ‘Live and Let Die’ which was the first outing for Roger Moore, and originally aired in 1973, my birth year! Besides being surprised that I didn’t remember most of it (I thought…
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A History of Working Class Women’s Rights
Back in Time for the Factory is a really useful documentary series from the BBC which explores how working class women’s working rights have changed since 1968. The documentary consists mainly of ‘historical reenactment’ in which a number of ordinary women (and some men) go into a garment factory in Wales and work as women…
