Food for thought - case studies
Here you will find an assortment of snapshots, provocative articles and case studies that might be useful resources to stimulate debate on the theme of gender inequality. If we can provide evidence and generate discussion on the topic, perhaps we can move closer to finding solutions?
- Naked Ambition?
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Madonna's got it, how about you?
Naked ambition is invariably difficult for women to own up to. Or even to feel. Why is that, asks Madeleine Bunting in this article from the Guardian October 25, 2005.
- Ethnic Minority Women and the Labour Market
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"I am only 26 but have many things going against me: female, married, Asian, traditional child-bearing age" - a selection of quotes from women who have contacted the Equal Opportunities Commission about their own experiences at work ... not surprising, but shocking but all the same.
- Thirty Voices
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'I was only the third woman to become an RAF police dog handler. If anything went wrong for me I was told that it was because I was a woman, yet if I did well I was told that I’d only done well because they were being easy on me because I was a woman.' On their 30th anniversary the Equal Opportunities commission followed up 30 individuals who have been affected by the Sex Discrimination Act or the work of the EOC since 1975. Their stories are told in 30 Voices which you can download from here.
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