Women and Gender Studies

Data Feminism offers strategies for data scientists seeking to learn how feminism can help them work toward justice, and for feminists who want to focus their efforts on the growing field of data science. But Data Feminism is about much more than gender. It is about power, about who has it and who doesn't, and about how those differentials of power can be challenged and changed.

The year 2020 was commemorated by key milestones for gender equality. As part of the Generation Equality Forum, UN Women, France, and Mexico launched six Action Coalitions, with the intention to deliver concrete and transformative change towards gender equality over the next five years.

This report provides a cross-cutting view of key health topics in the EU from a gender perspective, analysing the main issues with a specific focus on differences between women and men. Gender is discussed at the level of individual mental and physical health and within healthcare systems. The report presents current data and literature and outlines main areas for policy development and actions. Illustrative practices are provided on access to services and on gender-sensitive health services. A view on gender issues in COVID-19 is provided. Recognising the importance of social, environmental and economic determinants on health (WHO, 2019c), the conclusions and recommendations locate the data within the broader framework of social policies and gender health equity (Beckfield et al., 2017).

Explore our new exhibition, 'Making Modern Women: Women's Magazines in Interwar Britain'.

The Fawcett Society has today sent a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, asking him to implement the key recommendations included in the Women and Equalities Select Committee report.

On 1 December 2020 the High Court handed down an important judgment that has significantly changed how and when the NHS (and by extension private practices) can prescribe puberty blockers (PB) to children with gender dysphoria. The case was brought against the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust (Trust) by two women: Keira Bell and Mrs A. Keira Bell is a 23-year old woman who was prescribed PBs by the Trust’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) when she was 16. She went on to transition to male and to have a double mastectomy, but then regretted becoming male and de-transitioned to a woman. Mrs A is the mother of a 15-year-old girl with autism who fears that her daughter will be prescribed PBs without fully understanding the implications. © Farrer & Co LLP, January 2021

The Office for Students (OfS) is re-launching its work to tackle harassment and sexual misconduct in higher education.

Women's Budget Group - economic and social impact of the pandemic on women in the UK 

Read our calls for West Midlands Mayoral candidates to commit to gender equality.

The paper draws on data from EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions longitudinal database, which provides a 4-year rotational panel for all the EU member states, to investigate the relationship between income poverty and material deprivation across different EU countries, and to consider the extent to which the overlap between the income poor and the materially deprived changes if we consider the two phenomena from a longitudinal perspective. Our aim is first to identify individuals at high risk of persistent income poverty and material deprivation and second to understand differences and similarities in the determinants of the two types of risks. To the extent that material deprivation and income poverty indicators approximate different aspects of living standards as is concluded by a number of scholars (for example by Perry, 2002 and Nolan and Whelan, 2011) and as will be discussed in more detail below their dynamics are also likely to differ. It is therefore important to consider both, and the relationship between them, to understand whether they provide a consistent picture of the risks faced by different social groups in different countries.

Under the framework of the UN Joint Global Programme on Essential Services, UN Women, together with UNODC and the IAWP, have developed a handbook on gender-responsive police services for women and girls subject to violence. intersectionality 

Speakers: Professor Shani Orgad, Professor Sarah Knott and Jess Brammar

Published on: 28 Jan 2021

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