‘Removing womens’ inequality would add $12 trillion to global growth’
…according to the latest report from Mckinsey. It estimates that gender inequality has vast economic costs. It quotes the data that gender equality would add 16% to GDP in India and worldwide the figure would be 11%. Get the full data and report from the website. Also this week a paper from the LSE International Inequalities […]
Tackling violence against women
Tackling Violence against Women is a great new website from the LSE centre for Women Peace and Security which aims to offer students and members of the public a solid introduction to the human rights instruments and laws designed to end discrimination and violence against women and girls. It covers both international treaties as well […]
Online Gender Gap Audit published
The World Wide web Foundation has recently launched its first audit of the difficulties women face at getting online. It used 14 indicators and, focusing on 10 nations, shockingly found women were 50% less likely than men to be online, and 30-50% less likely to use the Internet for economic and political empowerment. The website […]
Where is the worst place in the UK to be a girl?
According to the latest report from Plan UK five indicators were used to rank the 346 local/unitary authorities in England and Wales. They included child poverty, education, life expectancy and teenage pregnancy. The final results revealed Sandwell and Salford to be the worst places. Download the full report to get the results and consult the methodology. […]
Gender balance in politics
A crowdsourcing game called Gender balance is trying to gather information about women in politics. The data collected will then be fed into the everypolitician site. This will be an alternative to IPU reporting which comes from member parliaments.
IMF gender equality data tool
IMF has conducted the first-ever global review of policymakers’ use of tax and spending policies to promote gender equality and has released an online database toolkit of gender equality indicators worldwide. You can investigate whether gender budgeting in over 60 nations has had an impact. Access the data and read associated research reports.
1866 suffrage petition 150th anniversary
It is 150 years since The Women’s Suffrage Committee, formed by Barbara Bodichon, collected 1,500 signatures on a petition for women’s suffrage in 1866 and it was presented to parliament by John Stuart Mill. Find out with an introduction from the Parliament website where there is an online exhibition with a list of names. The […]
How diverse are UK journalists?
Find out by reading the results of a survey of 7,000 released this week by Reuters Institute. It is based on a survey of 700 journalists conducted in December 2015. While 45% were women they are less well-paid than men and occupy fewer management positions. The report also found this to be true of Black […]
Are emojis sexist?
Certainly Google engineers think so as they recently submitted a proposal to Unicode: see Expanding Emoji Professions: Reducing Gender Inequality for 13 proposed designs to show professional women and reflect the real world of women in work. This follows previous criticisms expressed in the Huffington Post in 2016 which form part of the campaign #like […]
Gender discrimination in the UK.
Following on from last week’s TUC report which found that ‘Women who become mothers before 33 earn 15% less’, the UK Government this week released the results of a survey on pregnancy and maternity-related discrimination and disadvantage in the workplace based on survey interviews with 3,254 mothers and 3,034 employers. Shockingly 77% said they had […]
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