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• International Day of the Girl Child

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/10/17/international-day-of-the-girl-child/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 17, 2016 was celebrated by the UN on October 11th   The official website has news , related resolutions and a resource section with reports including empowerment guidelines and statistics...

• Violence against women- is it getting worse?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/12/15/violence-against-women-is-it-getting-worse/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2017 The latest Femicide Census report, compiled by Women’s Aid, reveals that 113 women were killed by men in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2016.

• Prolife Newsletters Digital Collection

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/10/prolife-newsletters-digital-collection/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 10, 2016 Get an insight into the challenges faced by American women campaigners for the right to choose by consulting this new online collection from Georgia State University .

• Gender pay gap: what is the reality?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/07/28/gender-pay-gap-what-is-the-reality/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 28, 2017 The release of the BBC annual report which disclosed the salaries of the highest wage earners provoked a discussion about Gender pay disparity.

• Civil partnership data

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/23/civil-partnership-data/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2013 Latest civil partnership data released by Office for National Statistics. Includes unions and dissolutions. Also includes some articles on impact from 2005-2010.

• Open government

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/22/open-government/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2014 How open is your government? The latest Global Open Data Index from the Open Knowledge Foundation ranks 97 nations according to the openness of their data on 10 themes: national...

• Informal sector indicators

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/01/12/informal-sector-indicators/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 12, 2024 ILO informal sector indicators are being developed. See more here . Also now available, the Worker and Sector Profiles (PROFILES) database.

• Windrush review : lessons learned

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/23/windrush-review-lessons-learned/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2020 In the introduction to this independent  review of Windrush generation  treatment by the UK Home office and other officials the author, Wendy Williams, states: “While I am...

• Under reporting of missing and murdered indigenous women (Canada and US)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/02/under-reporting-of-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-canada-and-us/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 2, 2018 The MMIW Database logs cases of missing and murdered indigenous women, girls, and two spirit people in Canada and the United States, from 1900 to the present.

• Do extroverts earn more?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/18/do-extroverts-earn-more/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 18, 2016 Interesting report released this week by the Sutton Trust which examines the link between personality, aspirations, career prospects and socioeconomic status.