Here is the latest
update of social science sites of the week
Taiwan elects first
woman president
To commemorate this historic event look at the links to news
reports and background academic
assessments on our recent
blog posting.
Only 7% of people
describe themselves as feminists
According to the results from the 2016 Fawcett
society state of the nation report only 4% men , 9% women polled labelled themselves as feminists. When
asked to describe what the word meant to them a shocking 26% of the words used
were negative eg irrelevant, bitchy while 22% used positive terms such as
strong willed
This was based on market research Survation polled 8165 UK
residents aged 18+ between 30th
November and 3rd December 2015. The survey was
conducted via online panel. other topics covered include
attitudes towards gender equality, perceptions of gender identity,
see more reports on Gender on our scoop.it
page
However on a more positive note
EY
Senior Civil Service Women Leaders Index found that the UK ranked 4th
in G20 countries amongst the representation of women in senior government
official posts. The highest percentage is Canada at 46.1 the UK has 38.7%.
However none had 50%
Download the full text of the report to find out more data
on pay gap differentials between Uk government departments
LGBT Equality in the
Workplace
Find out the best place to work in the UK by consulting the
latest annual Stonewall
Equality Index. The methodology examines 10 key areas: distinct areas of
employment policy and practice, including networking groups, career
development, training and community engagement. Interesting M15 and the
security services are this year ranked top ! The
Times Higher has conducted an analysis of the figures and comments on the
highest ranked universities.
An economy for the
1%?
As the World
Economic Forum opens at Davos this
week with the release of its 2016 Global
Risks report. The risks are divided into five
categories: economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal and technological..
Oxfam
released a report that showed shows that the wealth of the poorest half of
the world's population - that's 3.6 billion people - has fallen by a trillion
dollars since 2010. However, not all commentators accept these see the criticism
from the FT.blog. Look at poverty and Inequality
data on the World Bank website. This enables some worldwide trends
from 1981 onwards to be tracked.
You can see more on our new
scoop.it page for reports relating to International Development studies.
How and Why you
should manage your research data
A new concise
guide for researchers from JISC which gives a basic introduction to the
data management cycle with links to free online courses and advice. The
emphasis is upon why research data management is important and what they can do
to get started.
What went wrong in the 2015 election?
View the preliminary
findings from the inquiry in to the polls ordered by the British Polling
Council . Its terms of reference and
methodology can be viewed on the website . The BBC has also been
discussing the topic this week.
Also released this week Margaret Beckettis internal investigation of the Labour
Party failure . Useful response on this from the News
Statesman. LabourList (Party supporters) http://labourlist.org/2016/01/what-does-the-beckett-report-tell-us-eight-initial-thoughts/
. Prospect
magazine Labour uncut blog
From a different political viewpoint
New LGBT Archive
“U.S. Homophile
Internationalism: is a new online exhibit which can be found on the Outhistory.org
website It provides free access to essays and articles from a range of
magazines from the 1950s and 1960s which represented and provided access to
contributions about and from
homosexuality and homosexuals from different region of the world
including Russia, Asia and Africa. The exhibit focuses on the years from 1953
to 1964 and it addresses three of the most important U.S. homophile magazines
of the 1950s and 1960s: ONE, Mattachine Review, and The Ladder.
Florence Nightingale
letters online.
Free access
to this marvellous resource which has been created as an international collaboration.
effort between the Florence Nightingale Museum in London,
England, the Boston University Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, the
Royal College of Nursing and the Wellcome Library. It is possible to search by
keyword or browse by data and or theme. Key topics include: history of public
health care, hospitals, nursing military
nursing, health care of women, For instance
see this example where she discusses the role of women nurses in military
hospitals and an unsent
letter on a similar theme
Wikipedia celebrates
15th birthday
Get some facts and figures on the most edited articles etc from an official website on
the history. Did you know that the first photo on Wikipedia was a pair of
quail!
