It's all in the data. And it will blow you away...
Let's remove any subjectivity, let's look at the numbers. Every day there are more and more studies backing up the reality we keep talking about: real equality doesn't exist yet. Nothing gives you more leverage in a debate that some irrefutable statistics. Because data is not a man hater. Data is the most objective way we have to prove a reality and then change it!
Welcome to our recommended content section. Below we've grouped together a fantastic range of recommended sites, content, audio, video and social media that provide data for your feminist discussions. Keep scrolling to get started...
The Gender Data Portal is the World Bank Group’s comprehensive source for the latest sex-disaggregated data and gender statistics covering demography, education, health, access to economic opportunities, public life and decision-making, and agency
The OECD Gender Data Portal includes selected indicators shedding light on gender inequalities in education, employment, entrepreneurship, health, development and Governance, showing how far we are from achieving gender equality and where actions is most needed
The GII is an inequality index. It measures gender inequalities in three important aspects of human development—reproductive health, empowerment and economic status
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
The world has been designed with a male bias in ways we may not notice at first but once you crunch the data, as Caroline Criado Perez has, you begin to see it everywhere. She popped in to show how toilets, transport and even the mobile phone in your hand are inconveniencing, harming and even causing the deaths of women across the globe
Gender inequality doesn’t make sense on any level. Promoting gender equality can reduce extreme poverty and hunger and boost shared prosperity for girls and boys, women and men, around the world.
Sexual harassment and sexual assault are serious crimes that often go overlooked and unpunished. In a 2017 study, approximately 54% of women said that they personally experienced unwanted sexual advances
The gender pay gap is not caused by women earning less than men for the same job. It is largely because women choose different careers and suffer a “motherhood penalty”’
Encourages women in business and nurtures change in society. It applauds and rewards working women who are so often starved of adequate recognition and workable life-balance.
As part of our 'Equality, inclusion and wellbeing in the workplace' series, we researched how gender inequality and the pay gap affects working men and women in the UK.
Women in the UK fall behind in terms of gender parity as they enter adulthood, the workforce, or become parents, but change can come by focusing on several priority areas.
At this Fawcett Society event, Caroline Criado Perez, award-winning campaigner and author of Invisible Women, and journalist Helen Lewis came together for a powerful and provocative conversation on how the gender data gap shapes our world.
Why do women feel flat despite eating well and working out the same way as their male colleagues? The answer lies in gender bias.
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Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women
Maya Angelou
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Curated lists of where to get your best feminist fix on Social Media. If you've any suggestions of must haves for this new Social Media section or indeed any of the other sections on this page, don't hesitate to get in touch and we'll do our best to get them reviewed and added.
