Women Of The Year 2011 (No Pandas)
The BBC’s female Faces Of 2011 left a lot to be desired, prominently featuring wedding participants and a panda. Reni Eddo-Lodge nominates some more distinguished recipents, and Kim Kardashian.
Women’s Work? Women’s strike!
A brief reflection on the N30 strike One of the differences between the 30th November strike and most other industrial actions was the highly visible presence of women on the picket lines and in the marches. Trade unions are traditionally male-dominated and associated with heavy industry; say “strike” and people immediately think of coal mines, [...]
250,000 people on benefits to lose access to free education.
If you want to be educated don’t be poor, don’t be from an ethnic minority, don’t be disabled and don’t be a woman. That’s essentially the message from new research by the Association of Colleges (AoC) published today which showed that 250,000 people currently on benefits could be priced out of education. A survey from [...]
Feminine or Feminist?
In the beginning there was man and there was man’s wife (woman). And man was brave and strong and clever, and man’s wife was weak and emotional, and cared for pretty things like skirts and sparkles. Or something like that. Unfortunately, but not really surprisingly, we are still influenced by this picture of gender and [...]
Women’s Budget protest – pictures
20 women blockaded the main exits from Downing Street this morning, in an attempt to stop George Osborne delivering a Budget that would hammer women. The protestors were in place from 11.15 until 11.52, when the Chancellor’s car broke through the blockade. Protestor Sara Ayech said: “We are stopping George Osborne from delivering his bankers’ [...]
On Scotland’s People…
This article is cross-posted from Lallands Peat Worrier The Scottish Household Survey “is a continuous survey based on a sample of the general population in private residences in Scotland” which is “designed to provide reliable and up-to-date information on the composition, characteristics, attitudes and behaviour of Scottish households and individuals, both nationally and at a [...]