Resources
We will continue to add relevant sources/data and articles of particular or outstanding interest. We hope these will be of use.
OFSTED Review of sexual abuse in schools and colleges (2021)
High levels of sexism fuelling poor mental health among women
‘It’s Just Everywhere – Sexism in Schools’, Report Jan 2019, UK Feminista & NEU
Sexual violence and sexual harassment between children in schools and colleges, Report May 2018, DfE
Large Numbers of Teenage Girls Experience Sexual Coercion in Relationship by Professor Nicky Stanley, University of Central Lancashire
The Transition from Sex to Gender in English Prisons: Human Rights and Queer Theory by Michael Biggs
This paper analyses how the prison system in England and Wales transitioned from sex to gender, from the 1990s to the 2010s. It traces the succession of criteria for allocating males to women’s prisons: first genital surgery, then legal sex, and finally gender identity.
Prof Michael Biggs is a member of the AEA Advisory Group.
This Report uses ‘gender’ as a synonym for ‘sex’. This is about the perception of the inequality of females. Women are almost 52% of UK adult population. Because women are ubiquitous in all spheres, the common perception is that equality has been achieved. This Report endorses that perception.
‘Britain ranks 21st in the world for gender equality, and people in Britain are among the least concerned about inequality between men and women, with 23% saying it is one of the most serious forms of inequality in the country.
Other, similar nations that rank higher on objective measures of gender equality actually have greater levels of concern about this issue.’
Read the report from The Policy Institute at Kings College London : Inequalities around the globe: what the world sees as most serious
The Pay Gap
Mandatory Gender Pay Gap Reporting: summary of reported data for 2018/19
Gender Pay Gap: women still short-changed in the UK
Female & Male Social Roles
Gender roles. An incomplete revolution?
Women and Girls in Science
Women in STEM, MATRIX Position Paper, Report May 2018, DfE
Sexism, Rape, Sexual Violence/Assault, Sexual Harassment
OFSTED Review of sexual abuse in schools and colleges (2021)
High levels of sexism fuelling poor mental health among women
‘It’s Just Everywhere – Sexism in Schools’, Report Jan 2019, UK Feminista & NEU
Sexual violence and sexual harassment between children in schools and colleges, Report May 2018, DfE
Large Numbers of Teenage Girls Experience Sexual Coercion in Relationship by Professor Nicky Stanley, University of Central Lancashire
Girls and Low Self-Esteem
The Prince’s Trust, Youth Index 2019, Report Social Media Creates Pressure on Young People
Girls and Self-Harming
‘Worrying rise in reports of self-harm among teenage girls in UK’
Women’s Prisons
The Transition from Sex to Gender in English Prisons: Human Rights and Queer Theory by Michael Biggs
‘This paper analyses how the prison system in England and Wales transitioned from sex to gender, from the 1990s to the 2010s. It traces the succession of criteria for allocating males to women’s prisons: first genital surgery, then legal sex, and finally gender identity.’
Prof Michael Biggs is a member of the AEA Advisory Group.
Equality for women not seen as an issue in the UK
This Report uses ‘gender’ as a synonym for ‘sex’. This is about the perception of the inequality of females. Women are almost 52% of UK adult population. Because women are ubiquitous in all spheres, the common perception is that equality has been achieved. This Report endorses that perception.
‘Britain ranks 21st in the world for gender equality, and people in Britain are among the least concerned about inequality between men and women, with 23% saying it is one of the most serious forms of inequality in the country.
Other, similar nations that rank higher on objective measures of gender equality actually have greater levels of concern about this issue.’
Read the report from The Policy Institute at Kings College London : Inequalities around the globe: what the world sees as most serious
AEA submission to Women and Equalities Select Committee Inquiry: Changing the perfect picture: an inquiry into body image
Read the submission by AEA Alliance (docx file).
AEA Director, Ann Sinnott, summarises in this article: The Equality Act is Being Undermined by Official Guidance.
Lynn Enright’s experience of intense pain, previously dismissed by medical practitioners, eventually led to a hysteroscopy to examine the inside of her womb. This experience prompted Enright to search for research data on pain and women’s health. She was shocked by how little she found. Her book ‘Vagina: A Re-education’ is the result – which has won the Hearst Big Book Awards 2019 for ‘Women’s Health Book of the Year’.
Enright found that less than 2.5% of publicly-funded research1 is dedicated solely to reproductive health, despite the fact that one in three women in the UK2 will suffer from a reproductive or gynaecological health problem. She also found that there is five times more research into erectile dysfunction, which affects 19% of men, than into premenstrual syndrome, which affects 90% of women3.
1. UK Health Research Analysis 2014, UK Clinical Research Collaboration 2015
2. Survey reveals women experience severe reproductive health issues
3. Why do we still not know what causes PMS?
‘Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men’ – by Caroline Criado Perez, reviewed by Joan Smith, Literary Review, Mar 2019
“Invisible Women” appears at a moment when our rights are under attack, not least in the USA, where the arrival of the Trump administration has given fresh wind to attempts to restrict abortion. Anyone who doubts that we live in a world designed by and for men needs to read this book, with its implicit message that even what we’ve won so far can never be taken for granted.
Excerpt from Literary Review article by Joan Smith
Read the full review or buy the book from independent online bookseller, Hive.co.uk