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This blog aims to focus on gender and employment, equal pay, gender and organisations, transgender politics, theories about sex and gender, experiences of doing gender in daily life, performing and writing gender. The Blog is linked to the MA module 'Gender at Work' and many of the posts are written by students.

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Month: March 2019

March 28, 2019

FOUR REASONS WHY GENDER SHOULD BE PART OF THE UK SCHOOL CURRICULUM

Sara-Jane Luke ‘Boys in schools want to learn about gender, it matters to them, it’s important in their lives’- Raewyn Connell It is undeniable that […]

Childhood, masculinity by Barbara Jane Elliott
March 28, 2019

Why is Ed Sheeran so popular at weddings?

Studying sociology is a great opportunity to try to answer life’s big questions – why do people fall into patterns of behaviour? What enables some […]

Anthropology, Culture, domestic labour, masculinity, music by Barbara Jane Elliott
March 28, 2019

The Office

“The term ‘sex’ should be understood as an individual’s biological make-up and ‘gender’ as culturally learnt and enacted by individuals”. (Oakley, 1985) If you were […]

gender segregation by Barbara Jane Elliott

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