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• Women: political and economic participation

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/30/women-and-political-and-economic-participation/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2015 Beijing +20 The UN has launched a new website to mark the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a visionary agenda for women’s empowerment.

• Gender Pay Gap reporting is now compulsory…

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/04/11/gender-pay-gap-reporting-is-now-compulsory/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 11, 2017 … for  employers with 250 or more staff.  To find out about the new system see the UK government website  and read the legislation.

• Migration Data Portal

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/22/migration-data-portal/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 22, 2018 The Portal was launched in December 2017 by IOM’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) , with the support of the  Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

• MOnetary ValuE of health at older ages (MOVE) Simulator

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/01/13/monetary-value-of-health-at-older-ages-move-simulator/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2025 Developed by the WHO Demographic Change and Healthy Ageing Unit, the MOVE simulator allows a user to estimate the value of changes in health status for an individual or a population...

• Euro debt crisis

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/11/16/euro-debt-crisis/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2012 Recently Pew Global Attitudes report stated that it has rocked European unity The Guardian datablog has produced some excellent charts with facts and figures on financial data.

• What went wrong in the 2015 election?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/22/what-went-wrong-in-the-2015-election/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 22, 2016 View the preliminary findings from the inquiry in to the polls ordered by the British Polling Council.  Its terms of reference and methodology can be viewed on the website.

• Police and hate crime

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/31/police-and-hate-crime/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 31, 2018 Do the police investigate hate crime properly? Serious concerns have been raised this week by an HMIC inspection  report.

• International Equal Pay Day

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/09/25/international-equal-pay-day/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 25, 2020 18th September is designated  International Equal pay day Some key documents are:  Human Rights Council resolution on Equal Pay  (2019) ILO Centenary...

• ‘Removing womens’ inequality would add $12 trillion to global growth’

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/09/30/removing-womens-inequality-would-add-12-trillion-to-global-growth/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 30, 2016 …according to the latest report from Mckinsey.   It estimates that gender inequality has vast economic costs.

• Free access to Congressional Research reports

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/02/free-access-to-congressional-research-reports/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 2, 2016 EveryCRSReport.com provides free access to over 8,000 reports from the Congressional Research Service.