Research blog

Wednesday, 8 March 2017

8th March is International Womens Day

The theme this year is be bold for change

Celebrate bold women with these resources

The LSE Women’s Library Digital Collections has the full text of

Mary Wollstonecraft- A vindication of the rights of woman 1798

Virginia Woolf – A room of one’s own

the archives has materials relating to suffragette Emily Wilding Davison. View an online exhibition of her writings, photographs of possessions and accounts of her death.

Bold journals

the Vote which was published by the Women's Freedom League from 1909-33 has many articles campaigning for equal rights for women. In the 2nd December 1909 issue they write about the purpose of their newspaper is
We are not going to give away patterns of woolly waistcoats for men or hints on making ottomans out of egg-boxes’ (p.67)

Spare Rib magazine inspired women during the Womens Liberation movement 1972-93,
read the full text online via the British Library. Whose Sisterhood and Beyond website has a range of oral histories form the movement

Finally some bold Speeches

We should all be feminists Chimamanda Ngozi

Malala Yousafzais speech- United-Nations 2013

2017 House of Lords debates

The Office for Budget Responsibility will publish an accompanying economic outlook on its website
The House of Commons Library also has a good background briefing. They also have some historic facts and figures giving a list of chancellors and lengths of speeches from 1968 onwards.

News reports

BBC news
Telegraph
Guardian

LSE staff and students can our FT.com subscription for special reports plus Nexis UK for daily newspaper coverage

Financial analysis from acountancy and financial services, tax firms

IFS produce a green budget. Their website also has other associated papers.
Institute of Economic Affairs Briefing
Deloitte preview
PWC
EY Club Budget Preview
Saffery Champness
Grant Thornton
BDO
KPMG
RSM

Industry and think tank submissions to the Chancellor.
CBI
EEF
Federation of Small Businesses
Freight Transport Association
National Housing Federation

Other organisations

Local Government Association

20th Februrary is World Social Justice day

the 2017 Theme: "Preventing conflict and sustaining peace through decent work
it was adopted by a UN resolution in 2007
Another key document is the adoption in 2008 by the ILO of the Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization

In the UK
get data on wage levels and working conditions try these resources.

The ONS maintains annual data on working hours and salaries. This has
Data on levels, distribution and make-up of earnings and hours worked for UK employees by sex and full-time or part-time status in all industries and occupations.

low pay

The UK government has released a list of 350 employers who failed to the minimum wage . The Page also has facts on the key industrial sectors concerned.

For evidence about low pay in the UK See the Low Pay Commission website which has reports and national minimum wage calculator.
The Office for National Statistics has bulletins on the number of employee jobs with pay less than the National Minimum Wage or the new National Living Wage in the UK .
It also has statistics on average working hours and pay /
There is a table on zero hours contracts from 2015

There is also a recent visualization of the Gender pay gap
Other sources which are good for examining gender and other pay inequalities.
Including the TUC website which monitors this from a trade union perspective.

High pay centre which has information on 'fat cats' the difference between chief Executive pay and other workers.

European Union Data

Eurostat has gender pay gap data for most EU nations.

Global Data

ILOSTAT has international wages and labour conditions data

The ILO produces an anual Global Wages report which surveys key trends as well as offering data.

World Social Security report looks at levels of coverage of social insurnace, social welfare benefits