{"id":1732,"date":"2014-10-03T13:41:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T13:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:28","slug":"feminism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2014\/10\/03\/feminism\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Fawcett Society launch new blog: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fawcettsociety.org.uk\/blog\/\">Feminist Matters<\/a><br \/>\nIt will cover a range of topics from a feminist perspective. First topics covered are the labour party conference and its relevance to women.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heforshe.org\/\">He for she campaign launched by the United Nations to campaign for gender equality<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0launched by actor Emma Watson UN Women Global Goodwill Ambassador. V<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unwomen.org\/en\/news\/stories\/2014\/9\/20-september-heforshe-press-release#sthash.X6ykWW7K.dpuf\">iew the webcast of her speech <\/a><br \/>\nyje campaign\u00a0aims to use the power of social media.\u00a0 For commentary from the Womens Resource Centre <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/natalie-gyte\/emma-watson-feminism-speech_b_5872376.html?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=WRC&amp;utm_campaign=4728800_Thought+Leadesrhip+Thursdays&amp;dm_i=4DW,2TCRK,BQJOD,AAA9V,1\">see this article in the Huffington Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information on United nations programes relating to women see, the main <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unwomen.org\/\">UN Women website.<\/a>\u00a0 They have a great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unwomen.org\/en\/digital-library\/publications\">online publications library<\/a> with many full text reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unwomen.org\/en\/news\/stories\/2014\/9\/geena-davis-study-press-release\"><strong>Also this week first global study \u00a0on women characters in the international film industry<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; launched by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, UN Women and the Rockefeller Foundation -shows clear gender imbalance.<br \/>\nThe study covers film characters and the way in which they are portrayed and as well as the gender balance in film industry personnel.<br \/>\nShocking statistics show that currently only 31% of speaking roles are female and only 21% of film makers are female.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/seejane.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/full-study-gender-disparity-in-family-films-v2.pdf#sthash.7RHXx5IY.dpuf\">full text can be downloaded.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/annenberg.usc.edu\/pages\/DrStacyLSmithMDSCI\">Media, Diversity, &amp; Social Change (MDSC) Initiative<\/a> at USC&#8217;s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism is a leading think tank dedicated to addressing issues of inequality in entertainment.\u00a0 Its website is a useful starting point for tracing more information on gender imbalances and the media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fawcett Society launch new blog: Feminist Matters It will cover a range of topics from a feminist perspective. 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