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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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April 18, 2023April 18, 2023

Design has a gender problem

By Maxine Morland The gender problem runs through the industrial design world, from poor recruitment and retention of women designers to designed products that are […]

Gender, Work by tw588
March 30, 2023March 30, 2023

Calling me ā€˜baby girl’ is not a compliment

Ho Ki Lo ā€œHi sweetheart, you look wonderful, do you want to be my sweet baby?ā€ That is what I’ve been asked while walking in […]

Feminism, Gender, masculinity by tw588
March 30, 2023March 30, 2023

The impact of childbirth in the female workplace

By Chengsi Li Have women truly achieved workplace equality? Women have made significant strides in the labour market, but men continue to dominate in many […]

Gender, Work by tw588
March 30, 2023March 30, 2023

Powerfully Bald: Controlling the rules of femininity through hair

By Jodie Warren The deadline for our final year project proposal was getting eerily closer. Dissertation or a Performance as Research? I couldn’t fathom writing […]

Culture, Feminism, Gender by tw588
March 30, 2023March 30, 2023

Gender Identity and the Woke Agenda

By Soufyane Badreddine ā€œIf I am […] the loose thread that unravels the gender of everyone around me, then I am going to pull, and […]

Culture, Gender by tw588
March 30, 2023March 30, 2023

The Career Dilemma of Chinese women: Discrimination in Recruitment

By Dongyu Zhang A joke circulating among young Chinese female netizens is ā€œBeing born a woman is already hard enough, but if you are unlucky […]

Culture, Feminism, masculinity by tw588
March 30, 2023March 30, 2023

ā€˜Red Lips for Hot Tips’: Should Erotic Capital be used in the workplace?

By Ciel Chaussy It’s a Friday night and my colleagues and I are getting ready for a busy ā€˜Red Lips for Hot Tips’ service. Standing […]

Culture, Feminism by tw588
March 30, 2023March 30, 2023

The Good the Bad and the Ugly Truth About ā€˜Pretty Privilege’

Webb, Constance Perhaps one of the most unnoticed social injustices has been staring us straight in the face: ā€˜pretty privilege’…So, what is it? The buzz-phrase […]

Culture, Feminism by tw588
March 29, 2023March 30, 2023

Girl Boss: How does gender impact on how staff memebers feel about their bosses?

Bamsey, Lillie At the age of sixteen, I became employed at a local pub in the kitchen as a KP. My boss, a middle-aged man, […]

Culture, Feminism, masculinity by tw588

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  • The impact of childbirth in the female workplace
  • Powerfully Bald: Controlling the rules of femininity through hair
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