Opengendertracking project
A project which aims to build software to track gender content in online news stories. The website provides an explanation of the project. This launch page http://opengendertracking.org/ includes details about bias and the under-representation of women in news stories. It includes stories measuring women in UK news.
Sisterhood and After
http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/sisterhood/about.html A website from the British Library developed in association with Sussex University and the Women’s library. It Covers the oral history of the women’s liberation movement from the 1960s onwards. Site is divided into key themes with timelines, biographies, interviews and teachers resources. The latter include classroom notes, glossaries and links to related websites. […]
International Women’s Day: 8th March
This year’s UN International Women’s Day focuses on ending violence against women. The song One Woman is released today to help laucnh the campaign. Hear it here: http://song.unwomen.org/
Gender Equality in China
Are you an unmarried woman of over 27? In China you might be ‘leftover’ according to a report in BBC magazine: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21320560 The All China Women’s Federation has English language discussion of this topic. This is an Official website founded to protect the rights of women and promote gender equality: http://www.womenofchina.cn/html/folder/82-1.htm?q=leftover The People’s Republic of […]
Crime statistics: India
Following the depressing news of the rape case in India, the National Crime records Bureau India has official crime statistics. Search the website by keyword to find some materials. The President of India and the parliament have issued recent press releases and there is newspaper coverage in the: Times of India. Indian Express Hindu The Center […]
Middle Eastern Film Posters
Middle Eastern Film Posters Digitization Initiative The Princeton University Digital Library Middle East film collections website contains 148 images (with Arabic texts) used to promote Arabic films. These items were acquired in Lebanon in 2008 and they advertise films released between 1935 and 2007. Useful for students of media, advertising and gender as many feature […]
16 days of action to eliminate violence against women
From the 25th November to 10th December activists across the world are taking part in the 16 days of action against gender violence as part of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. This UN day has its own website with campaign materials. It also marks the beginning of the 16 Days of […]
Equal pay day
A report from the Fawcett society claims a backward step for women in closing the gender pay gap in the UK. See other campaign material on their website for more reports and statistics. To research this topic further. The Equality and Human Rights Commission has the legal facts. It also has the sex and power […]
Global Gender Gap report 2012
The World Economic Forum has just released this annual report. The Index benchmarks national gender gaps on economic, political, education- and health-based criteria, and provides country rankings: http://www.weforum.org/reports/global-gender-gap-report-2012
Bishopsgate Institute Library and Archive: new online exhibitions
http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/ Since 2010 the London based Bishopsgate Institute has been digitizing some of its major archival collections. Key strengths includes various collections on London, labour, freethought and radicalism. Recent additions include the Morning star photographic archive – view photographs this has over 300 online images relating to industrial relations, strikes and unions most from 1960s […]
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