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International Day to End Violence Against Women
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/01/international-day-to-end-violence-against-women/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2014 Marked by the UN on 25th November. This year Orange used a social media campaign for publicity. S hocking statistics from UNWomen show why this day is necessary.
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Where is the best place to be a woman?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/15/where-is-the-best-place-to-be-a-woman/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2014 According to the 2014 Global Gender Gap report issued by the World Economic Forum – Iceland is top of the rankings.
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Where is the best place to be a working woman?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/13/where-is-the-best-place-to-be-a-working-woman/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 13, 2015 To mark International Women’s day the Economist created a ‘glass-ceiling index’ which uses OECD data to rank factors including gender pay gaps and labour force participation.
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Freedom to Marry, Oral History Collection
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/26/freedom-to-marry-oral-history-collection/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2017 Free access to this important collection from the University of California Berkeley The Bancroft Library’s Oral History Center .
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Statelessness Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/17/statelessness-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 17, 2018 In March a new tool, the Statelessness Index , to compare national EU government policies towards stateless persons was launched by the European Network on Statelessness It makes...
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Women in developing countries 9% less likely to have a bank account
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/04/women-in-developing-countries-9-less-likely-to-have-a-bank-account/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2018 Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution The Global Findex database is the world’s most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make...
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Women will take 118 years to achieve equality
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/20/women-will-take-118-years-to-achieve-equality/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 20, 2015 A ccording to the World Economic Forum Global Gender report which ranks over 140 economies on health, economic, political and education factors.
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Olga Suhomlinova
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/author/os22/
Debating Crimea Posted by Olga Suhomlinova in School of Business Blog on March 27, 2014 Dr Olga Suhomlinova, Lecturer in Management at the School, responds to a question which she now finds herself expected to answer “So, what do you think about Crimea?” This is the most...
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Discover Library Resources in November
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2025/11/10/discover-library-resources-in-november/
Posted by William Farrell in Library and Learning Services on November 10, 2025 Find out more about our resources and collections this Autumn. We have a fantastic line-up of publishers for you as part of our Resources Showcase on Wednesday 12th November.
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Global Social Theory
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/26/global-social-theory/
Posted by William Farrell in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 26, 2015 Globalsocialtheory.org is a new, collaborative resource on social theory from a global perspective.