Recognising Diversity?: Gender and Sexual Equalities In Principle and Practice 20th & 21st June: Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Leeds Recognising Diversity?: Gender and Sexual Equalities In Principle and Practice marks the end of the research project ‘Recognising… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘gender’
History, tennis, and fashion: women at Wimbledon from 1884 until today
This gallery traces the evolution of female Wimbledon fashion, from the floor-length dresses of the 1880s to the skin-tight miniskirts of today: (click on the image to see the full gallery)
Gender in academia: how much have things changed?
This 1992 article discusses the barriers faced by female scientists and engineers. How much have things changed in the past 21 years? Not enough.
Women academic authors between 1665 and 2010
See this Chronicle of Higher Education report on the publishing patterns of female academic authors in the last three and a half centuries.
Why did men stop wearing high heels?
Finally a good article explaining the craze of high heels with the help of some well-researched historical evidence. After years of being baffled why on earth (rather, above earth) half of the (rich) world’s population is expected (and often cherishes… Read More ›
The reasons for female religiosity
Why are women – historically as well as today – on average more religious than men, even though they are mostly excluded from leadership positions? In their new book entitled Why Are Women More Religious Than Men?, two sociologists from… Read More ›
Can Google Autocomplete Tell Me ….
As the psychologist Meg Barker suggests in her new book, Rewriting the Rules, looking at the most common words which Google uses to complete the phrase “how can I get my boyfriend/girlfriend to … ” can be a fun way… Read More ›
Saudi Arabia’s women: small steps for change
How do working women get to work in Saudi Arabia – where there is no public transport and they are not allowed to drive because of their sex? How do women who do not have a male guardian live without… Read More ›
A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing(?): On Being a Not So Dumb Blonde
Since returning northwards, and knowing that it would only be temporary, I’ve made the decision to try and get out into the Northumberland countryside as much as possible. It’s not going well, largely owing to my reluctance to leave my… Read More ›
Best and worst place to be a woman
The annual State of the World’s Mothers report by Save the Children has some interesting (or depressing, depending on the viewpoint) new statistics on five key indicators of gender equality from women’s perspective in 165 countries. Here is a neat infographic thanks… Read More ›
“It has happened to me”: the untold and unheard stories of male rape
“Everybody has heard the women’s stories. But nobody has heard the men’s.” No one talks of male rape – yet it happens – as an instrument of war, as well as outside war. Yet this systemical silence does nothing to… Read More ›
The real naked bodies
In this video, Jennette Williams, winner of the 2008 CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography, tells the story of making the photographs in her book “The Bathers,”. Jennette Williams: “The Bathers” from Center for Documentary Studies on Vimeo.
The Opposite of Crush
Once, in my Introductory Sociology course, I gave a lecture about social oppression. It was fairly abstract. I didn’t talk about any specific kind of social oppression, like gender oppression or racial oppression or sexual oppression. I just talked about… Read More ›
SI SPORT WEEK #4-1: Researcher’s profile: Deborah Butler discusses Careers in the Racing Industry
Most people may have heard about Arkle, Red Rum, even Desert Orchid. How many people will have given a thought about the individuals who made sure these equine athletes made it the racetrack, fit and ready to race? It is… Read More ›
SI SPORT WEEK #3-3: Gender in sport magazines
Brilliant short analysis of the differences in representation of sportsmen and sportswomen in magazines. Read here Sportsman (Source: Mirror.co.uk) P.S. The same seems to apply to google image searches for “sports men” and “sports women”… those people writing the magazines are… Read More ›
SI SPORT WEEK #3-2: Gender in sport. Beware surfing stereotypes!
For all sociologists of sport out there: a new article which discusses the pervasiveness of caricatured gender stereotypes in surfing. Click here to read the article by Cori Schumacher of the Guardian .
More about the gender pay gap. Blaming women?
Following up on yesterday’s post which showed some fresh UK statistics on the full-time gender pay gap in median earnings, today we continue with a more argumentative (if slightly older) piece by psychology professor Hilary M. Lips of Radford University,… Read More ›
ONS: Gender Pay Gap Narrows
This article by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), published in December 2010, claims that the full-time gender pay gap in the UK (for median hourly earnings, excluding overtime) has narrowed by two percentage points between 2009 and 2010. However,… Read More ›
New Contribution to The Comics Grid
In lieu of a new Mediated Matters column this week, I direct you instead to my contribution to The Comics Grid, where I report on the Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2011, the premier indie comics event in Canada. In that… Read More ›