Do women have a need for feminism in a Britain where they can enjoy porn while men help out with childcare? It might be too soon to assume the arguments have been settled, warns Stephanie Taylor.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
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Having a learning disability doesn't mean you don't want the same things as other people when it comes to love - why would it?
Category: Social Care & Social Work
Transgender people are now able to compete at the Olympics - but there are some who worry this might create opportunities for cheating. Katharina Lindner explores the questions.
Category: Sport & Fitness
Women's cricket goes professional but public attitudes to women's sport are still riddled with discrimination.
Category: Sport & Fitness
Although society's attitude toward mental illness has improved, discrimination and misconceptions surrounding those affected are still prevalent. This free course, Mental health practice: Bonnyrigg, explores a number of issues relating to mental health practice, including the difference between mental health and mental illness, and the discrimination that can arise when people experience some form of mental distress.
Category: Healthcare Careers
Urban youth violence is a global problem that goes beyond policing and is best understood when viewed from a political economic and youth development perspective.
Category: Education & Development
How does racism manifest itself in schools and workplaces? Explore the policies that discriminate against Black and Minority Ethnic communities in this immersive film interactive.
Category: Education & Development
It's fair to say, the majority of people hold certain judgments about older and younger generations. Bust some misconceptions here...
Category: Education
Hair discrimination is an issue that affects Black women’s experiences at work, in education and in society in general. Lurraine Jones looks at the politicisation of Black hair and microaggressions experienced by Black women.
Learn about how the Williams family is trying to cope in the aftermath of Afro hair discrimination by pushing for change.
In this free course, The American Civil Rights Movement, you will learn about the mass movement for racial equality in the United States that reached its zenith during the 1950s and 1960s. During this turbulent period in United States history,
black Americans sought to overturn deeply entrenched systems of racial segregation and discrimination. This course discusses the key events in this campaign for social justice, drawing on a wide range of primary sources. In doing so, it assesses the
achievements, shortcomings and revolutionary qualities of the civil rights movement.
black Americans sought to overturn deeply entrenched systems of racial segregation and discrimination. This course discusses the key events in this campaign for social justice, drawing on a wide range of primary sources. In doing so, it assesses the
achievements, shortcomings and revolutionary qualities of the civil rights movement.
Category: History & The Arts
Western culture can't seem to shake off portraying women as witches. Dr Chloé Germaine Buckley wonders why.
Category: Literature
Andrea Levy's 2004 novel Small Island is based on four characters who leave Jamaica for Britain in the aftermath of the Second World War.
Category: Literature
Thora Hands interviewed Linda Fisher in early 2022 about her time working at the British Leyland factory, Bathgate, West Lothian. This was one of the largest plants of its kind established in the UK in the post-1945 era and was to represent an important source of employment for an overwhelmingly male workforce drawn from across Central Scotland.
Category: Society, Politics & Law
Nowadays women can do any job they want. Women have fought for years to be able to work, vote, and have our own opinions. So, what’s it like to be working within a workplace, Royal Mail, that is still male dominant, with women postal workers comprising just under 20% of the workforce?
Category: Society, Politics & Law
How did education prevent women from choosing careers that were deemed 'masculine'? Suzi Collins explores this and tells us of Ann Gibbons' story, who challenged gender roles in the workplace.
Category: Society, Politics & Law
Who's really offside in sports? Kath Woodward, Professor of Sociology at The Open University, responds to sexist comments made by two sports presenters about a female assistant referee.
Category: Society, Politics & Law
Women often lose either way, damned if they do and damned if they don’t express emotion in public, either approach being judged to convey symbolic meanings that question their authenticity and authority.
Category: Politics
Having children brings many changes. We consider the price of parenthood
Category: Politics
Jackie Topp discusses the difficulties and discrimination faced by disabled parents
Category: Politics