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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, 2022

Will a woman’s work ever be done?Ā  Not when it involves doing housework and doing gender

by Paula Lovelock Finding myself living in a London house-share with four guys in the mid-1990s, it only took a few weeks before I went […]

covid19, domestic labour, Feminism by Barbara Jane Elliott
March 29, 2021

Has the status of women under COVID-19 improved or regressed?

Shuo Feng ā€˜In September alone, there were about 865000 women dropped out of the labor market in the United States, compared with only 200000 men. […]

covid19, domestic labour by Barbara Jane Elliott
March 29, 2021

ā€œ Leave that damned crown in the garageā€

Yuyang Zhang Indra Nooyi was told by her mother to ā€œleave that damned crown in the garageā€ and tend to her household responsibilities even though […]

domestic labour, gender segregation 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

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