{"id":1719,"date":"2014-09-01T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:28","slug":"who-runs-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2014\/09\/01\/who-runs-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Who runs Britain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/237978517\/Sex-and-Power-2014-Who-Runs-Britain\">Who runs Britain 2014<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>T<\/strong>he second annual report from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.countingwomenin.org\/\">Counting Women<\/a> which examines women\u2019s participation in public life in the UK.\u00a0 It find that although women are 51% of the population \u2013 they are under represented in politics, parliament and local government.<\/p>\n<p>For a different viewpoint see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/elitist-britain-report-published\">Elitist Britain<\/a>\u00a0the new report from the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission which focuses upon social class and privilege.\u00a0\u00a0It finds an over-representation of privately educated and Oxbridge alumni in public life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who runs Britain 2014 The second annual report from Counting Women which examines women\u2019s participation in public life in the UK.\u00a0 It find that although women are 51% of the population \u2013 they are under represented in politics, parliament and local government. For a different viewpoint see Elitist Britain\u00a0the new report from the Social Mobility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15,9],"tags":[52,242,72,99],"class_list":["post-1719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-sociology","category-labour-market-studies","tag-feminism","tag-politics","tag-poverty","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1720,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions\/1720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}