Social Equality

Can digital play a role in social care?

Why digital social care? A 2016 government report projects that nearly one in seven people in the UK will be over 75 years old by 2040, nearly 10 million compared with just 5 million in 2019. This is a vast pool of experience and wisdom.…

gender equality, Insights, Social Equality

Ground stem in the real world to fix the gender imbalance

Girls outperform boys at GCSE level at school, including within STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). But then, before college, something curious happens: The number of girls taking A-levels in STEM subjects…

gender equality, Insights, Social Equality

Mothers want to work

Women in 2017 made up almost half of the labour force at 46.5 percent but still there are many more women who want to work. Over a third of stay at home mothers want to work and about a fifth of mothers who are working want to take on…

gender equality, Insights, Social Equality

Gender stereotypes in children

Let kids be kids. Allowing one to seal off childhood as separate from harsh realities is a reassuring mantra. Indeed, childhood can be reduced to a place of play and comfort unrelated to the adult world, with many complex issues being of…

gender equality, Insights, Social Equality

Can you be what you cannot see?

Across the world women held only 24.3 percent of parliamentary seats in 2018. Just a tenth of heads of state are women, and they occupy only 22.5 percent of the board seats of Fortune 500 companies (an annual list by Fortune magazine…

gender equality, Insights, Social Equality

Self belief may be the key to reducing the gender pay gap

All companies in the UK which have 250 employes or more now have to publish there gender pay gap. The BBC received some heavy criticism for their gender disparity and many other companies may also be in the firing line. One of the main reasons…

gender equality, Insights, Social Equality

Male friendship and risks of loneliness

Loneliness is not specific to one group, place or time. It can happen to anyone, and the long term effects can be devastating. In terms of mortality, smoking can pose similar health risks. In certain groups, loneliness may result in more…

gender equality, Insights, Social Equality

How gender stereotypes affect the workplace

When the Uk’s second female Prime Minister, Theresa May, entered Downing Street she stated that the UK could become the “world's greatest meritocracy”. By definition this is a place where work is rewarded and nothing else; a place…

Insights, reduced inequalities, Social Equality

The benefits of benefits

The UK is one of the most unequal countries in Europe when looking at before tax income. The redistributive effect of the benefits system brings the UK up to the European average of income inequality. This is no small change. Before the…

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