Category: Socio-Economic Class
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Food poverty in the United Kingdom
Loura Al Alanezi is a Politics (BA) student. She is from Kuwait, and she reports on the topics of poverty, mobility, security and conflict. Her hobbies include reading books and painting. Food poverty and its consequent impacts such as malnutrition have become more prominent within the United Kingdom due to increased costs of living, including food…
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Period Poverty – local and global contexts
The author made a request to remain anonymous. The definition of period poverty includes not having access to supplies and information regarding menstruation. Period poverty also includes the stigma around menstruation stemming from cultural and social views. As a consequence of this lack of education and stigma around menstruation, many girls are not adequately knowledgeable…
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Palestinian Displacement: from the perspective of women
The author made a request to remain anonymous. Palestinian women have experienced conflict, resisted the oppressive Israeli government all whilst maintaining their household and worrying about their families’ safety and stability. For the past 67 years, Palestinians’ house and village demolitions have become widespread. Forced evictions are related to ethnic cleansing and associated state crimes…
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Women are being left behind, but they are the key to battling Climate Change
Sofia Lopez Simpson is a second year International Relations student. Her hobbies and interests include playing the guitar and spending hours making spotify playlists. Climate change is inevitably affecting everyone’s lives, though it should be noted that women and men experience it differently. Climate change is also affecting the poorest communities the most, as unpredictable…
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Struggles of female journalists
Loura Al Alanezi is a Politics (BA) student. She is from Kuwait, and she reports on the topics of poverty, mobility, security and conflict. Her hobbies include reading books and painting. According to journalists, the most important responsibility of journalists in the United Kingdom is to provide information with accuracy. In doing so, female journalists face…
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“At least she has a job”- but is she fulfilling her potential? The dangers of work sexism and how to end it
Sofia Lopez Simpson is a second year International Relations student. Her hobbies and interests include playing the guitar and spending hours making spotify playlists. Last week I had a conversation with someone who refused to accept the pervasive presence of discrimination faced by women in the workplace, “at least she has a job; we should…
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Social inequalities amidst a pandemic
Loura Al Alanezi is a Politics (BA) student. She is from Kuwait, and she reports on the topics of poverty, mobility, security and conflict. Her hobbies include reading books and painting. The pandemic has undoubtedly had a negative impact on a variety of factors in our lives, though it can be said that women had faced-…
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Swedish Women Don’t Fall Over: How snow clearing can be sexist and how everyone wins when it isn’t
One staff member joked that at least there couldn’t be any gender inequality in snow clearing.
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The Small Town-Feminist Chronicles pt. IV: The Gender-Equalists
Whilst patriarchal oppression is the default state many female small-town residents unconsciously accept and internalise, there are also shining examples of women this system has failed to intimidate.
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The Small Town-Feminist Chronicles pt. III: (Un)Learning by Doing
Increasing the student’s encounter with feminist ideas on a textual level is great, but is unlikely to be effective on its own,
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The Small Town-Feminist Chronicles Pt. II: The Patriarchal Status Quo
The incapacity of self-criticism conforms to the patriarchal, heteronormative system that community members have been spoon-fed since birth.
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The History of Intersectionality – What Can the Women’s Movement Learn From Its Past?
The women were able to bring their case to trial based on race discrimination, or gender discrimination, but not both
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