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...education, defence and overseas aid are ring-fenced. But everything else is “unprotected” and vulnerable to cuts. This includes police budgets, which could be reduced by 25%. The Chancellor’s strategy for reining in the UK’s fiscal deficit, prioritising public spending cuts over tax increases, reflects a conservative view that governments should have less to do as...

...Rape Myth Acceptance scale. This would be a sounder approach than removing juries. In combination with this, rape myths can also be targeted by educating both prospective jurors and young people in schools – and even judges – about the dangers of rape myth. Hopefully education would also remove rape myths from society before individuals are selected to be jurors....

...IT sector seems to be more gender equitable. Female enrolments in science and engineering education (around 65%) and IT labour force participation (around 30%) are considerably higher in India than in the UK – in fact, they are amongst the highest of the countries studied in an OECD survey (Salvi del Pero and Bytchkova 2013). Importantly, IT is seen in India as offering a more gender equitable workplace (Mitter 2000) and ......