On this page you will find links to reports and research papers on the themes below. Please click on the topic areas in the list below to go see links to research in each area:
- The Pay Gap
- Female and Male Social Roles
- Women and Girls in Science
- Sexism, Rape, Sexual Violence/Assault, Sexual Harassment
- Girls and Low Self-Esteem
- Girls and Self-Harming
- Women’s Prisons
- Equality for Women not seen as an Issue in UK
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