The High Court rejected an application by campaigners for a judicial review of the 'emergency' June 2010 Budget, made on the grounds that the government had failed to conduct a gender impact assessment.
Source: High Court 6 December 2010
Links: Fawcett Society press release | Guardian report | Public Finance report
Date: 2010-Dec
A report said that minority-ethnic women experienced excess poverty. Women of all ethnic groups had lower individual incomes than men in the same ethnic groups, with Pakistani and Bangladeshi women having the largest gap and Chinese and black Caribbean women the lowest.
Source: Alita Nandi and Lucinda Platt, Ethnic Minority Women's Poverty and Economic Well Being, Government Equalities Office
Date: 2010-Dec
A report examined what helped – and what hindered – women's organizations in creating change at a local level.
Source: Power & Prejudice: Combating gender inequality through women's organisations, Women's Resource Centre
Links: Report
Date: 2010-Aug
An article said that concerns that the feminist agenda was better served by qualitative rather than quantitative methodology were based on a narrow definition of feminism and a misleading portrayal of quantitative research. Quantitative approaches were essential to examine the processes of selection and exclusion that reflected and created gender inequalities.
Source: Jacqueline Scott, 'Quantitative methods and gender inequalities', International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Volume 13 Number 3
Links: Abstract
Date: 2010-Jul
The Scottish Government published the results of research carried out to identify progress made by Scottish public authorities in tackling violence against women, and in tackling occupational segregation.
Source: Tackling Violence Against Women: A Review of Key Evidence and National Policies, Scottish Government | Tackling Violence Against Women, Scottish Government | Tackling Occupational Segregation: A Review of Key Evidence and National Policies, Scottish Government | Tackling Occupational Segregation, Scottish Government
Links: Report (1) | Summary (1) | Report (2) | Summary (2) | Report (3) | Summary (3) | Report (4) | Summary (4)
Date: 2010-Jul
A new book examined how policies developed by the National Assembly for Wales were affecting gender inequalities, and whether they were having an impact on social justice for women in Wales.
Source: Nickie Charles and Charlotte Aull Davies (eds.), Gender and Social Justice in Wales, University of Wales Press
Links: Summary
Date: 2010-Jul
A new book considered how gender inequalities were changing in the 21st century. Many inequalities of earlier eras were being eradicated: but there were new barriers and constraints that were slowing progress in attaining a more egalitarian society. Contributors examined the conflicts between different types of feminisms, revised old debates about 'equality' and 'difference' in the gendered nature of work and care, and proposed new policy solutions.
Source: Jacqueline Scott, Rosemary Crompton and Clare Lyonette (eds.), Gender Inequalities in the 21st Century: New barriers and continuing constraints, Edward Elgar Publishing
Links: Summary | Telegraph report
Date: 2010-Apr
A new book said that it was an illusion to believe that feminism had achieved its aims, and that women and men had achieved equality. It set out the major issues for modern feminism, and explored how they were woven into people's everyday lives.
Source: Kat Banyard, The Equality Illusion: The truth about women and men today, Faber and Faber
Links: Summary | Guardian review
Date: 2010-Mar
A report by a cross-party committee of MPs said that the profile of parliamentary representatives was too white, middle-class, heterosexual, male, and able-bodied. It recommended that mandatory legal quotas should be set for the number of female parliamentary candidates if there were not a significant increase in female MPs at the 2010 general election, and that political parties should be required by law to publish targets on the representation of women, black people, and disabled people.
Source: Speaker's Conference (on Parliamentary Representation): Final Report, HC 239, House of Commons/TSO
Links: Report | EHRC press release | Fawcett Society press release | Stonewall press release | Rethink press release | Hansard Society press release | Compass press release | Guardian report | Personnel Today report
Date: 2010-Jan