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A new Regional Gender Equality Monitor
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/29/a-new-regional-gender-equality-monitor/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 29, 2019 A new index which focuses specifically on female disadvantage and achievement at a regional level within the European Union.
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Poverty in the UK
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/02/poverty-in-the-uk-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 2, 2019 4.5 million people are more than 50% below the poverty line, and 7 million people are living in persistent poverty in the UK.
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Too poor to afford school holidays?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/07/28/too-poor-to-afford-school-holidays/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 28, 2017 This week the Trussell Trust published research that during school holidays more children receive and rely on food bank emergency supplies.
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METOO digital Project Schlesinger Library
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/09/11/metoo-digital-project-schlesinger-library/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 11, 2020 Major archival project from the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America which is based at Harvard University.
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Employers who underpay workers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/17/employers-who-underpay-workers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 17, 2017 The UK government has released a list of 350 employers who failed to the minimum wage . The page also has facts on the key industrial sectors concerned.
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In which British city do people earn the most?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/29/in-which-british-city-do-people-earn-the-most/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 29, 2016 Find out this and other fascinating facts and figures on the economic and social indicators of Britain’s major cities by consulting the latest Cities outlook 2016 which has just...
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Parents, teens and digital monitoring
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/29/parents-teens-and-digital-monitoring/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 29, 2016 Find out what percentage of American parents surveyed checked their teenagers Facebook accounts, texts and emails in this enlightening new study from Pew Internet Research Centre .
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Chatham House ‘Best think tank in Western Europe’ 2015…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/19/chatham-house-best-think-tank-in-western-europe-2015/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 19, 2016 …according to the 2015 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report an annual ranking produced by The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Liberating History Podcasts
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/04/15/liberating-history-podcasts/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2024 A series of 60 minute podcasts created by the Liberating Histories research team which is supported by Northumbria University, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, The LSE Women’s...
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Lad’s mags
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/21/lads-mags/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2013 The Cooperative Supermarket s have called for a number of men’s magazines to tone down or remove images of women from their covers.