Feminism & Gender
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The Idea that Female Politicians are More ‘Civilised’ is not Grounded in Reality
Widespread beliefs about women's more cooperative and civil political discourse are not substantiated by research.
- Equality
- Progressive Politics
- Feminism & Gender
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Why Motherhood is Intensely Political
Despite decades of further social progress, motherhood has become a politics-free zone. Yet the truth is that motherhood is intensely, yet covertly, politicised.
- Progressive Politics
- Feminism & Gender
- USA
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Women's Access to Public Life is Restricted by Incivility and Discrimination
Women in the UK—particularly women in Parliament and public life—are subject to physical and verbal abuse, threats, and merciless assaults in the press. In what way is women's access to public life being restricted by these forms of intimidation?
- Elections & Campaigning
- Equality
- Feminism & Gender
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The Slow Radicalisation that Helped the Taliban to Victory
How widespread radicalisation through mosques, madrassas, educational institutions and even state universities both directly and indirectly contributed to the Taliban’s victory.
- Feminism & Gender
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Why we Need Data on Both Sex and Gender Identity
Sex is a fundamental demographic and explanatory variable, yet in recent years, sex has been overwritten by gender identity across a range of data collection exercises.
- Feminism & Gender
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Gender Politics after Corbynism
How initial prospects for the cultivation of a more gender-sensitive left politics in the early years of the Corbyn period were ultimately undermined.
- Feminism & Gender
- Labour Party
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Review: Invisible Women. Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed by Men, by Caroline Criado Perez
Bad data make bad science. Gender biased data distort research because it is predicated on the assumption that the human is male.
- Progressive Politics
- Feminism & Gender
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Why do Some Women Call Themselves ‘Politically Homeless’?
There are three main drivers behind such statements: Brexit, allegations of Labour Party anti-Semitism, and current plans to reform the Gender Recognition Act (GRA).
- Elections & Campaigning
- Brexit
- Feminism & Gender
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Are Female Leaders Better at Dealing with Coronavirus? Or is There More to it Than That?
When the time comes to systematically analyse the political responses of this crisis, a more nuanced understanding of why some countries handled the response better than others will likely emerge.
- Covid-19
- Feminism & Gender
- Scotland
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A Feminist Reading of 'Rethinking Democracy'
Any lingering complacency over the health of liberal, representative democracy, is well and truly disabused by the contributors to this book.
- Populism
- Feminism & Gender
