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The latest gender pay gap report for the year ending 31st March 2018 confirms that the Council does not have a median gender pay gap for basic pay. The report provides three key measures of equality: basic pay, bonuses and the proportion of males and females receiving a bonus While the median gender pay gap for […]
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Ania Kordala, a student at Green Templeton, was allegedly asked to leave a talk on “Women and leadership – fighting for an equal world” for bringing her toddler. The talk was given by former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard at the Sheldonian Theatre on Tuesday 26 March. Gillard was the first female Australian prime minister […]
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The release of the new Captain Marvel trailer fills me with hope for the future of Marvel’s cinematic universe. For all its epic scope and breath-taking action scenes, Avengers: Infinity War still revolved almost entirely around male characters, their actions, their plains, and their desires. There were maybe two or three moments in the film […]
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On 6th February this year, Britain celebrated a landmark anniversary. The day marked one hundred years since the first women in this country were granted the vote; full female suffrage was achieved ten years later in 1928. This centenary year is an opportunity for reflection on what has changed since then. While there is much […]
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It might come as a shock that three out of every four British companies and public entities pay male staff more, on average, than they pay female workers. But then again, it might not. With the arrival of the April 4th deadline for British companies to disclose gender pay gap figures, a familiar story unravels, […]
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Oxford University Labour Club’s Women’s Officer has expressed concerns in her Michaelmas report that women’s involvement in OULC is “negligible compared to that of men”.
Continue ReadingHertford has announced it will exhibit 21 portraits of famous female alumnae in hall. The women, nominated by students, will see their photographic portraits hung in the hall for the 2014-15 academic year in the places of male alumni. The move is part of a celebration of 40 years of co-education at the College. A […]
Continue ReadingThe Queen’s College JCR and Governing Body have demanded that the college’s predominately male sports committee become more inclusive and democratic. The Amalgamated Sports Committee, known as Amalgers, has been criticised for lacking gender balance. JCR President Alfred Burton described Amalgers as “having a history of excluding women”. Lacrosse Captain Rebecca Shutt concurred, saying that […]
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