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• Women are not represented in Local Government

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/09/24/women-are-not-represented-in-local-government/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 24, 2018 According to the latest report issued by the Fawcett Society   The proportion of female councillors is still only 34%.

• Digital Data Gender Divide

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/30/digital-data-gender-divide/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2018 Today worldwide 327 million fewer women than men have a smartphone and can access the mobile Internet.   This report from the OECD  considers what can be done.

• UNESCO’s Internet Universality Indicators

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/10/unescos-internet-universality-indicators/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 10, 2018 This is based on 4 principles.

• Does going to college pay?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/16/does-going-to-college-pay/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2020 Update from IFS on the impact of college graduation on earnings in the UK.

• Digital Archive of Japan’s 2011 Disasters

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/23/digital-archive-of-japans-2011-disasters/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2012 The Digital Archive of Japan’s 2011 Disasters is a project by Harvard University to collect, preserve and make available the digital records of the Japan’s disasters to assist scholarly...

• The Universal Human Rights Index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/04/27/the-universal-human-rights-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2012 http://uhri.ohchr.org/ Quickly trace recommendations relating to individual countries from the leading intergovernmental organisations.

• British Library releases free sports oral history collection

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/07/26/british-library-release-free-sports-oral-history-collection/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 26, 2012 http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Sport%20 Free access to interviews and recordings of famous British athletes.

• Global voices advocacy

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/08/global-voices-advocacy/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2013 A report on the internet firewall in China. Surveys the 2013 battle between Chinese netizens and China’s Great Firewall: http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.

• True of false?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/08/true-of-false/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2013 The Washington Post has produced a checking program, Truth Teller, http://truthteller.washingtonpost.

• Female FTSE report 2013

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/19/female-ftse-report-2013/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 19, 2013 Acces the latest annual review of the number of women board members at the UK’s leading FTSE companies.  From the Cranfield University website.