Gender equality
Quotas and women-only shortlists aren’t popular, but they work
The push for equality stopped years ago. Women need to wake up to what has really happened
Tags: Article, Business, Comment, Comment is free, David Cameron, Features, Feminism, Main section, Saturday, Suzanne Moore, The Guardian, Women, Women in politics
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Calm down, dear? Do me a favour David Cameron – language matters
Women’s position in society is already being weakened by this government. Cameron’s words should not undermine it further
Tags: Article, Comment, Comment & debate, Comment is free, David Cameron, equality, Feminism, gender, House of Commons, Libby Brooks, Liberal-Conservative coalition, Main section, PMQs, Politics, Society, The Guardian, UK news, Words and language
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Hard times bring greater workplace conflict to public bodies
The public sector is demonstrating high levels of workplace conflict, according to recent research. How can disputes be nipped in the bud?
Tags: Article, Features, HR, Management, Public Leaders Network, Workplace reform
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How fair is Britian For Women?
The EHRC has published its first Triennial Review on gender equality in the UK. http://bit.ly/hkQ2sZ
Tags: diversity and equality, EHRC, Gender equality, Women
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Women’s Empowerment Principles Make It Clear: Equality Means Business | Kiyotaka Akasaka
Women’s Empowerment Principles Make It Clear: Equality Means Business Posted on April 14, 2011 by kiyotaka See link at the end of this post for original post and video March 8 marks the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, an occasion for looking back on the past struggles and accomplishments of women, and for looking [...]
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White male culture dominates police, says equality review
Neyroud report says greater diversity ‘would transform attitudes’ and urges qualifications to boost quality of recruits
Tags: Alan Travis, Article, equality, Main section, News, Police, Politics, Society, The Guardian, Theresa May, UK news
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British Press Awards: where are all the women?
The lack of female prize winners shows the extent to which women are failing to reach the top in newspapers
Tags: Article, Blogposts, Comment, Daily Mail, diversity and equality in journalism, Gender equality, Jane Martinson, journalism, Media, Media news & features, MediaGuardian, National newspapers, Newspapers, Newspapers & magazines, Organ Grinder, Paul Dacre, The Guardian
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Women need not apply – but if they do, they may have a good case for gender discrimination!
BBC Radio 4 presenters and gender discrimination – why a programme’s culture and an insistence on a ‘best fit,’ that for Ceri Thomas the editor, means being a man, may result in discrimination and harassment.
Tags: discrimination, diversity, diversity and equality, equality, gender, Gender equality, sex, sex discrimination
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Rape is rape, Ken Clarke
Posted on May 18, 2011 by Christopher Coore
By using words such as ‘serious’ and ‘forcible’, the justice minister feeds the belief some rapes aren’t really rape at all
Tags: Article, BBC, Comment, Comment is free, Jane Martinson, Kenneth Clarke, Law, Media, Politics, Radio 5 Live, Rape, Society, The women's blog with Jane Martinson, UK criminal justice, UK news, Women
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