Join us for this panel event, discussing some of the key policy issues pertaining to women and work: from sexual harassment in the workplace, to the “motherhood penalty”, to the way women in employment (and women “who quit”) are represented in the media and policy discourse.
The event launches the publication of the new LSE Public Policy Review issue “Multidisciplinary approaches and policy innovation in Gender Research”, edited by Almudena Sevilla. Find out more about the issue that explores more emerging challenges and the evolving landscape of gender research, including perspectives from law, communications, health and social policy, gender studies and economics.
More about out speakers and chair
Gabriel Leite-Mariante (@LeiteMariante) is a PhD candidate in Economics at LSE. His work focuses on social protection, labour markets and gender inequality in low- and middle-income countries.
Shani Orgad is Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE.
Margaux Suteau (@MargauxSuteau) is LSE Fellow in the Department of Social Policy.
Dame Maria Miller (@MariaMillerUK) was secretary of state for culture, media and sport and minister for women and equalities (2012–14). Previously, she was also a junior minister in the Department for Work and Pensions (2010–12). She chaired the Women and Equalities Committee from 2015 to 2019.
Almudena Sevilla (@Sevilla_Almu) is a Professor of Economic and Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy at LSE and is currently the Founding Chair of the Royal Economic Society UK Women in Economics Network and the LSE Women in Social and Public Policy Research Hub.
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Learn about women producing and publishing art in London during the 1600s to 1800s from the collections held at The London Archives.
A recent project undertaken by Jeremy Smith and Charlotte Hopkins at The London Archives has revealed new information on women artists and publishers in practising in London during 1600s - 1800s.
Using examples from the London Archives print collections, readers can find out more in this section of the website. It includes some fascinating biographies and images.
Women and leadership in the news media 2025: Evidence from 12 markets From L-R: Angelina Kwan, Director of Broadcasting, RTHK, Hong Kong; Mapi Mhlangu, Editor-in-Chief, Newzroom Afrika, South Africa; Caren Bohan, Editor-in-Chief, USA Today; Laura Wilshaw, Editor, ITV News, UK Dr Amy Ross Arguedas...
There is a conceptual overlap between voluntary work and unpaid care work, as some voluntary work provides care work outside of the household. Many other volunteering activities do not count as care work, and unpaid care work for one’s own household is not classified as volunteering.Time spent doing voluntary and unpaid care work relates to one another, often in distinctly gendered ways. Both voluntary work outside the household and unpaid care work within the household provide valuable contributions to individuals and communities, helping to maintain the preconditions of social and economic life.In this report, a case study of Bangladesh addresses the relative lack of evidence on volunteering in lower-income countries, employing labour force survey (LFS) and time-use survey (TUS) data to explore volunteer work and unpaid care work.There are gendered patterns to the distribution of care work and volunteer work. Globally, care work both in the home and outside of the home is predominantly undertaken by women. Volunteering comprises a diverse range of activities and there are gendered patterns regarding who performs which type of role. Volunteer roles involving care tend to be done by women; the analysis presented in this study estimates that in Bangladesh, female volunteers spend 80.4 per cent of their volunteering time on care work activities compared to 40.6 per cent of male volunteers’ time. This gendered pattern may stem, at least in part, from the ways in which specific programmes mobilize volunteer labour.The report offers a set of recommendations for key actors to address inequalities related to gendered patterns of unpaid care and volunteering. For example, attention should be paid to the conditions in which unpaid care work provided by volunteers takes place. This will help to ensure adequate resources, fair recognition and appropriate support. Further, the gendered distribution of voluntary care work translates into differential labour market and income opportunities for women and men. This can be addressed by policies that promote skills recognition, appreciate the value of this work in its diverse forms, and ensure equitable access to volunteer opportunities.
This year, the ILO will mark International Women's Day by celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action with a special event reflecting on three decades of progress, challenges, and the future of women in the world of work.
The assumption is and always has been that the best, most powerful, most capable person in the room is a man. Men can literally be taken aback to find that women know anything at all. The AUDE Report ‘Well the assumption is…: Conversations with women leaders in estates and facilities’ (December...
The People of 1381 This is the website of an innovative new research project set to produce the most comprehensive interpretation of the Peasants' Revolt to date. The revolt was one of the largest popular uprisings in medieval Europe and rocked the country in the summer of 1381.
a marvellous academic source led by Professor Adrian Bell from Henley Business School at the University of Reading
that has 3 main sections, Sources, Participants, and Incidents.
Joanna wife of John Ferrour of Rochester is a well known female participants. You can look up what she did and fines imposed. but there are many more if you browse the list
2025-03-04. A new report from WAN-IFRA WIN highlights ongoing disparities in gender representation in media leadership roles across major global regions, as men continue to dominate business and editorial leadership roles. WIN responds with a decisive all to action.
This report shows why a major transition toward green and blue economies is needed to help countries in Asia and the Pacific generate jobs, reduce inequalities, and drive sustainable development.
Northumbria Archives. Writing with our project partners Welsh Women’s Aid, we will be examining the 1894 divorce petition of Lucy Gregory, the wife of a clergyman from Hampstead, who experienced multiple forms of abuse during her four-year marriage. Her story highlights that domestic abuse is an age-old problem, that it can happen to anyone, that it happens in public and in private, and that it occurs all year round. The framework that Lucy was forced to operate within did not provide her with the vocabulary to describe the abuse she faced at the hand of her husband as anything other than ‘cruelty’, but, as we will explain, that does not mean she did not experience what we would today recognise as physical, sexual, and psychological abuse, and coercive control. As with so many living in abusive relationships today, the festive period was particularly difficult for Lucy, but it was far from unusual
The Wikipedia editors' community has been actively pursuing the intent of achieving gender equality. To that end, it is important to explore the historical evolution of underlying gender disparities in Wikipedia articles. This paper presents the Wikipedia Gender Dashboard (WGD), a tool designed to enable the interaction with gender distribution data, including the average age in every subclass of individuals (i.e. Astronauts, Politicians, etc.) over the years. Wikipedia APIs, DBpedia, and Wikidata endpoints were used to query the data to ensure persistent data collection. The WGD was then created with Microsoft Power BI before being embedded on a public website. The analysis of the data available in the WGD found that female articles only represent around 17% of English Wikipedia, but it has been growing steadily over the last 20 years. Meanwhile, the average age across genders decreased over time. WGD also shows that most subclasses of `Person' are male-dominated. Wikipedia editors can make use of WGD to locate areas with marginalized genders in Wikipedia, and increase their efforts to produce more content providing coverage for those genders to achieve better gender equality in Wikipedia.
CLACS Latin American and Caribbean Ethnography Seminar
Participant Ethnographic Research in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro: Exploring Women’s Empowerment through Playing Football
Speaker Emma Frazer (University of Bristol and Cardiff University, UK)
Across Latin America, women’s football has repeatedly been discouraged, restricted and even prohibited at state level, with the explicit aim of preventing women from playing, while the men’s game was encouraged and became representative of the national identity. The inequalities are still very present; women have to overcome gendered expectations to play, face stigma, and receive far less structural support. So, why do women choose to play football? What impact does football have on their lives? How does playing empower them off the pitch?
For my research, I spent nine months conducting participant ethnographic field work in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro to explore these questions in the heart of two footballing nations. I played football with thirteen different women’s teams, conducted two dozen interviews and had more than 200 players complete my questionnaire, using the methodological framework of Grounded Theory to code my data and generate theory. Through being able to speak Spanish and Portuguese, and, crucially, by playing football with the women, I was able to achieve a special level of access and familiarity with players. In turn, I hope to communicate their experiences to a wider audience in a way that rings true to the players.
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