{"id":2809,"date":"2016-11-02T10:26:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T10:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2809"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:36","slug":"women-parliamentarians-suffer-sexism-harassment-and-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/11\/02\/women-parliamentarians-suffer-sexism-harassment-and-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Parliamentarians suffer sexism, harassment and violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shocking new study by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) reveals that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipu.org\/pdf\/publications\/issuesbrief-e.pdf\">sexism, harassment and violence against women MPs<\/a> is widespread worldwide.\u00a0 Over 81% of those surveyed said they had experienced psychological threats including abuse and threatening language in politics.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on this topic listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/newsAndMedia\/videoAndAudio\/channels\/publicLecturesAndEvents\/player.aspx?id=3625\">the audio of a recent public event held at the LSE:<\/a>\u00a0 Women in Politics: change and continuity\u00a0which\u00a0considered the question &#8216;Has the emergence of a woman as Prime Minister in the UK and a possible President of the US indicated a new relationship between women and formal politics?\u00a0 Or is it just business as usual?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>This follows on from a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universitiesuk.ac.uk\/policy-and-analysis\/reports\/Pages\/changing-the-culture-final-report.aspx\">Universities UK taskforce<\/a> report released last week which considered harassment, violence and hate crime \u00a0in universities and developed guidelines for develop a more inclusive culture and handling sexual and hate crimes amongst university students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shocking new study by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) reveals that sexism, harassment and violence against women MPs is widespread worldwide.\u00a0 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,15],"tags":[52,368,242,99],"class_list":["post-2809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminology","category-politics","category-sociology","tag-feminism","tag-hate-crimes","tag-politics","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809","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=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2810,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions\/2810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}