Is Britain a socially mobile nation?
Find out with the latest annual report form the Social Mobility Commission. It finds in terms of education, earnings and housing significant and often growing disadvantages between rich and poor. One of the key findings, on page 124, is that ‘While a private school student has a 1 in 20 chance of entering Oxbridge, a student […]
Equal Pay Day
This year equal pay day was 10th November This highlights the gender gap in wages as it is calculated by researchers to represent the last day in which women earn the same as men. From this date onwards women effectively stop earning while men carry on until the end of the year. See the Fawcett […]
Is social care in crisis?
PSA Commission on Care Report Towards a New Deal for Care and Carers was launched last week. It was based on a year-long inquiry into the state of care for older people in England undertaken by academics and policy experts from the Universities of Warwick and Liverpool, the Women’s Budget Group and the Fawcett Society. […]
British boards do not reflect ethnic diversity
The conclusion from the Parker review published this week which recommends quotas to enhance BAME employment prospects. See the CBI reaction. For background see his House of Lords briefing on black and ethnic minority employment trends. It includes links to earlier policy reviews, stakeholders and basic data. These include materials from the Ethnic Minority Stakeholder group […]
2016 summer Olympics and Paralympics web archives
Free access via the Archive-It service to material collected by the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) There are over 4,000 materials from a range of different countries covering the events in Rio. The web archive has snapshots of sites taken at stages before and during the games. There is also a search feature. There are sections […]
Women Parliamentarians suffer sexism, harassment and violence
Shocking new study by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) reveals that sexism, harassment and violence against women MPs is widespread worldwide. Over 81% of those surveyed said they had experienced psychological threats including abuse and threatening language in politics. For more information on this topic listen to the audio of a recent public event held at […]
Everyday sexism
A new podcast of a public lecture from Laura Bates, author of the Everyday Sexism Project. It was record at the LSE on 11th October 2016 and lasts 1 hour 25 minutes. In it she focusses upon the Everyday Sexism Project, with a particular focus on students at university and women in the workplace. For […]
Living Home Standard launched
Shelter in conjunction with user research from IPSO Mori has launched a new Living Home Standard based on 42 criteria which members of the public feel should be used to assess housing standards. Shockingly according to this 42% of homes do not currently meet it. Categories include space, affordability, neighbourhood, stability of tenure and conditions. […]
International Day of the Girl Child
was celebrated by the UN on October 11th The official website has news, related resolutions and a resource section with reports including empowerment guidelines and statistics on violence. The Save the Children report, Every Last Girl released this week contains the shocking statistics that one girl under the age of 15 is married every seven seconds. […]
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