Gender Pay Gap reporting – what difference might it make?
Professor Carol Woodhams discusses the impact of the Gender Pay Gap.
Course: Understanding Gender Inequality
Challenging Gender Inequality at work
Jemma and Lauren discuss gender inequality at work and how it is being tackled. Materials written by Dr Emma Jeanes, University of Exeter References: Bohnet I. What Works: Gender Equality …
Challenging gender inequality in society
Jemma and Lauren introduce key aspects of reactions to inequality in society – for example campaigns such as: HeforShe, MeToo Materials written by Dr Emma Jeanes, University of Exeter, with …
Challenging Gender Inequality at home
SPEAKERS: Lauren Castle and Jemma Rimmer, University of Exeter Materials written by Dr Emma Jeanes, University of Exeter, with contributions from Lauren Castle References Douglas, S. Michaels, M. The Mommy …
Additional links and reading
The following readings may be of interest for those who wish to read up on topics in more depth. Please note some of these require access to libraries or may …
Gender Inequality; what we know so far
This week we have explored aspects of ‘action’ against gender inequality: By asking some fundamental questions, such as ‘how can we change attitudes’? By considering how action is currently being …
Reflections on weeks one, two and three: translating what we know into action.
Across the weeks we have touched on the complexities of understanding and addressing gender inequality. What will also have become apparent is the multiple ways in which gender inequality is …
Exploring the agenda for change
Welcome to week four, the last week of the course. I hope you have enjoyed it so far and feel you have learned something about gender inequality. In the first …
Additional links and reading
The following readings may be of interest for those who wish to read up on topics in more depth. Please note that some of these require access to libraries or …
Summarising what we know
This week we have explored: Gendering in the workplace (re-capping the discussion from last week) Unpaid work in the home and the double burden Influences on the gendered home over …
Representations of Gender
Jemma and Lauren discuss representations in popular culture. (Materials written by Dr Emma Jeanes, University of Exeter, with ideas from Lauren Castle). References and sources can be found here: Advertisements …
Why do certain occupations matter?
During this module we have explored the gendering of roles, whereby some women are found to be disproportionately under- and over- represented in certain roles, and we’ve just explored the …
Gender Inequality: The Marriage Bar
While thinking about contemporary forms of gender inequality, it is instructive to look back at attitudes towards women working in the past to understand the present day. We already know …
A brief history of the gendered home
In this section we explore some of the themes that have influenced the gendering of the home over time. These include health developments, technology, social attitudes, government policy and organisational …
Gendered spaces
Jemma Rimmer discusses gendered spaces. The materials were written by Dr Emma Jeanes, University of Exeter with contributions from Jemma Rimmer The following references were used in this video: Collinson, …
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OU launches package of free FCDO approved Safeguarding Leadership courses
The Open University (OU) has launched the first module in a package of free Safeguarding …
