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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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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 “If 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 “Being born a woman is already hard enough, but if you are unlucky […]

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

‘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 ‘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 ‘Pretty Privilege’

Webb, Constance Perhaps one of the most unnoticed social injustices has been staring us straight in the face: ‘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
April 1, 2022

“You’ve got to step up your game!”

by Camilla Beghin Summer 2020, Covid-19 shut the world down. Why not restart dating then? Needless to say, I realised soon that Covid had changed […]

Anthropology, Culture, Intersectionality, Social Media by Barbara Jane Elliott
March 31, 2022

‘’Say good-bye to gender stereotype’’: how is gender portrayed  in the lyrics of pop music?

by Stephanie Pang Music is seen as an expressive tool where individuals can express their emotions. We often use music for many different purposes e.g. […]

Culture, Feminism, masculinity, music by Barbara Jane Elliott
March 31, 2022

Post-Lockdown Femininity Fears: The Return of Revenge Dressing!

by Ellie Gibb Ditch the joggers, switch off the X-BOX, put down the pint and slap on some lippy. Is that how you do it? […]

covid19, Culture, fashion by Barbara Jane Elliott
March 31, 2022

Gender, the guitar and why people won’t stop calling Wet-Leg ‘Industry Plants’

by Johnny Hurst Following CPB-London’s recent ‘imagine a’ campaign:[1] picture a guitarist. Are they a man? They shouldn’t be. Not only should you not assume […]

Culture, Feminism, masculinity, music by Barbara Jane Elliott

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