Context Of Practice: Further research

Jessica Ennis

Sheffield United renamed one of its stands in honour of Jessica Ennis-Hill, who started her athletics career in Sheffield, after she won heptathlon gold at London 2012

Jessica Ennis-Hill has said she wants her name removed from a Sheffield United stand if the club gives Ched Evans a contract.
The Olympic gold medallist - in whose honour the club's Bramall Lane stand is named - said re-signing the convicted rapist would "completely contradict" her beliefs.
The heptathlete is the latest high-profile figure to warn she would cut ties with Sheffield United if Evans is given a chance to play again.
She said in a statement: "I believe being a role model to young people is a huge honour and those in positions of influence in communities should respect the role they play in young people's lives and set a good example.

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The club renamed the Bramall Lane stand after Ennis-Hill's 2012 triumph

"If Evans was to be re-signed by the club it would completely contradict these beliefs."
Evans, 25, was released from prison last month after serving half of a five-year jail term and continues to protest his innocence.

Ennis then recieved an abundance of rape threats on twitter for making this moral stand.

South Yorkshire police are investigating rape threats sent to Olympic gold medallist Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill after she said she would request the removal of her name from a stand at Sheffield United if it offers a new contract to convicted rapist Ched Evans.
Ennis-Hill received the abuse on Twitter, with one tweet, sent from the handle @RickieLambert07 reading: “Jessica Ennis-Hill is a stupid cunt. Saying she will remove her name if Ched Evens [sic] is signed. I hope he rapes her.” Both the tweet and account were then deleted.
After the troll was called “scum” for his threat, he replied: “Freedom of speech mate … I’ll say what I want when I want!”.
Another Twitter user, going by the handle @CoreyOC21, sent a message to Ennis-Hill which read: “Hope Ched Evans gets you you little slut.”
A spokesman for South Yorkshire police said: “Officers are looking into the tweets.”

Once again women being degraded and insulted by men for having the power and courage to stand up for their beliefs. Branded a 'slut' and recieving threats for doing so. Unacceptable.

Emma Watson recieved rape threats and threats to reveal nude photographs after her HeforShe UN talk
http://www.itv.com/news/2014-09-22/countdown-to-emma-watson-nude-pictures-after-un-equality-speech/

CURRENT TOPICS

I typed into search on the BBC news website gender equality and the last story hadn't arisen since 2012. However, it is still an issue, just not being brought to light as much.

FEB 2012

8 February 2012 Last updated at 10:06

Builder named top businesswoman

A woman who promotes engineering for all is named Veuve Clicquot businesswoman of the year.

ILO in domestic work rights push

The International Labour Organization says that domestic workers must have the same basic labour rights as other workers.

Gender case hits insurance costs

Women are set to pay higher car insurance premiums and men will get smaller pensions following a European Court of Justice ruling.
Gender 'irrelevant in business'

A leading Lancashire businesswoman says the push to get more women in the boardrooms is "bordering on positive discrimination".
Women 'still missing top jobs'

Women in Wales continue to lack power and influence in key roles, a report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission says.

ITV however, had covered this in 2014 in a programme

NOVEMBER 2014

http://www.itv.com/news/2014-11-13/tonight-a-fair-deal-for-women/

They claim matters are only getting worse as Britain has dropped 17 places in a rank of countries with gender equality. I feel this is a much bigger issue to the new unseen unspoken of culture in Britain from male behaviour towards women, degrading women. I feel that the fact we are still not seen as equal influences men to treat women in this way.

What bothers me is the way that men view feminists. I got into a little heated debate with my housemates who are males when they asked me if i was a feminist and jumped down my throat about how feminists are annoying, that genders should not be equal and some jobs are just made for men, how sport should not be equal etc and I had to sit there silent because I was being spoken over. This is from males that I feel are uneducated about the matter and are going off the way they have been brought up in this society, they view feminism as a negative thing. The word scares them I think.

PAY GAPS
http://www.itv.com/news/update/2014-11-04/pay-gap-between-men-and-women-is-getting-wider/

SEXISM

OCTOBER 2014
This is a really great video that sums up my point

http://www.itv.com/news/update/2014-10-27/public-lulled-into-false-sense-of-security-over-sexism/

WRITERS (OUTSIDE OF THE LIBRARY) - gender inequality

http://annenberg.usc.edu/pages/~/media/MDSCI/Gender_Inequality_in_500_Popular_Films_-_Smith_2013.ashx
Gender Inequality: Feminist Theory and Politics

Lorber, Judith (2009), Gender Inequality: Feminist Theory and Politics, Nova Iorque, Oxford University Press.

This is an analysis of the feminist movement's views of gender inequalities in the last 40 years. The book addresses the main policies and theories on these inequalities. It also looks at the new lines of research on feminism in the 20th century.

(There are books from other countries but I want to stick to Britain for my question)

Gender Inequality: Selected full-text books and articles
Framed by Gender: How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World

Cecilia L. Ridgeway.
Oxford University Press, 2011

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Angles of Vision: How to Understand Social Problems
Leonard Beeghley.
Westview Press, 1999

Librarian’s tip: Chap. 3 "Gender Inequality"

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Women's Employment, Education, and the Gender Gap in 17 Countries
England, Paula; Gornick, Janet; Shafer, Emily Fitzgibbons.
Monthly Labor Review, Vol. 135, No. 4, April 2012

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The New Gilded Age: The Critical Inequality Debates of Our Time

David B. Grusky; Tamar Kricheli-Katz.

Stanford University Press, 2012

Librarian’s tip: Part IV "Why Is There a Gender Gap in Pay?"http://www.academia.edu/1576766/Gender_Inequality_and_Female_Victimization

Women carrying out masculine tasks

I have another idea to show women acting like men, doing things seen as stereotypically manly jobs or sports and write the word LAD underneath

BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY

I think it would be interesting to focus on culture, and compare books from an earlier date to current opinions on the matter; seeing how this has changed.