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#research: An Astonishing New Argument for Why Violent Crime Rates Have Dropped
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / January 10, 2013Less lead, believe it or not. It seemed, at first, preposterous. The hypothesis was so exotic that I laughed. The rise and fall of violent crime during the second half of the 20th century and first y...
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#research: 2012 brought second highest number of abortion restrictions ever (US)
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / January 7, 2013From feministing:The Guttmacher Institute is reporting that 2012 saw the second highest number of abortion restrictions (43 in 19 states) ever. The scary thing is that this is better than 2011, when a...
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#research: Ben Goldacre’s Bad Evidence (on evidence-based practice) [video]
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / January 6, 2013Medic and author Ben Goldacre explores the idea of evidence-based policy and asks if it can ever become a reality in the UK.In medicine, how do we know if a particular treatment works? The simple answ...
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#research: New study on sexual assault in the military
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / January 3, 2013From christinedecleene: According to a recent news article, more than 1,100 female military members who served in or near Iraq or Afghanistan were asked to complete anonymous mail surveys as part of ...
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#research: We need to attract more people of colour, women to STEM fields
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / January 3, 2013This piece sets itself up as discussing the “five reasons” why we need more women and minorities in STEM fields. As it turns out, it doesn’t explore those reasons in any depth at all...
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#research: Where are the families with three generations who’ve been out of work?
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / December 29, 2012The real problems of ‘in-work poverty’ and ‘underemployment’ are finally making some headlines, elbowing their way into the usual discourse about welfare to work and benefit dependency. But that isn’t...
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#research: The awful state of public opinion on immigration
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / December 29, 2012YouGov did some polling for the Sunday Times on the issue of immigration.[More here, via liberalconspiracy]
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#vivelafeminism: Feminist Arguments Against Industry of Prostitution
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / December 28, 2012Earlier I linked to a piece from Meghan Murphy about the decriminalisation of prostitution. Here is Finn McKay’s take. Debates over legal approaches to prostitution have been awakened once agai...
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#research: Spike In Gender Inequality In Japan
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / December 27, 2012It’s interesting that they phrase the trend as growing support for gender equality. Does that imply that gender equality itself has not been so remarkable? After 17 years of growing support for...
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#research: Study demonstrates sexism in science
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / December 23, 2012You might recall the European Union’s rather ill-conceived attempt to address the gender imbalance in science by releasing “Science: It’s a Girl Thing” - a video featuring much...
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#research: Scientists take note: women are key to the best results
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / December 17, 2012Research deserves our support for one simple reason: it improves societies and the lives of their citizens. Researchers discover what was previously unknown and they use that knowledge for innovation ...
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#research: Report rubbishes Tory myth that suggests unemployment is down to ‘culture of worklessness’ in some families
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / December 15, 2012Unemployed parents are desperate for their kids to get work – and help them try to find jobs, a report has found.The research rubbishes the Tory myth of families with generation after generation of un...
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#research: Teesside University: Incarceration is Rehabilitation: Prison and Probation in the USA
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / December 14, 2012The American criminal justice has long exerted a substantive impact on UK crime control policy. US practices such as the privatization of criminal justice, ‘three strikes and you’re out’ (mandatory mi...
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#research: How sex work has replaced a bar job for students who struggle to bills,loans and university fees
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / December 2, 2012Undergraduates have traditionally pulled pints or waited tables to pay their way through university, but a growing body of research suggests that a significant number are now turning to sex work to ma...
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#research: Annual Book Prize – Feminist and Women’s Studies Association book prize is now open
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / November 27, 2012The Book Prize is now kindly supported by Palgrave Macmillan. Palgrave Macmillan is internationally renowned for its support and publication of feminist and gender studies scholarship. Philippa Grand,...
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#research: No women bishops, no automatic seats in the House of Lords (petition)
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / November 26, 2012Responsible department: Cabinet OfficeThe Church of England on 20th Nov 2012 voted not to allow women to be Bishops. Though that is within its rights to do, this should worry the Government as Church ...
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#research: TEDxWomen 2012: No Matter Where You Are
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / November 22, 2012The worldwide phenomenon known as TED was started in 1984 when designer and architect Richard Saul Wurman noticed the complex, dynamic and culture-changing confluence of Technology, Entertainment and ...
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#vivelafeminism: Stephanie Coontz on feminism and the American family
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / November 19, 2012All too often, people mistake fiction for fact. Considering that we live in an era where the lines between entertainment and information have been blurred almost beyond comprehension, this becomes an ...
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#vivelafeminism: My thoughts on Femen and feminism
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / November 18, 2012All of this post is worth reading. I have quoted the end of it. Feminism can only succeed if we accept diversity. There is no way we can fight against a system as strongly entrenched as patriarchy if...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminist in High Heels (feminism and fashion)
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / November 18, 2012I confess: I love shoes. Especially when they’re high. Until they wore out, my go-to faves were a pair of black leather ankle boots with dangerously high heels. They were actually pretty comfortable...
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