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FEMINIST WEBS NATIONAL LAUNCH
Posted by Laura on January 24, 2010
Tags: events, feminism, Links, web, Youth
Feminist Webs is an award winning national movement and network to promote working with girls and young women in youth work settings to break down sexism and and provide safe spaces for young women to learn to be assertive, to…
IN WHICH I LOSE FAITH (WHICH ARGUABLY NEVER EXISTED) IN THE GSA
Posted by Laura on November 23, 2009
Tags: Children, feminism, Gender Stereotypes, News, Women, Youth
Jill Berry, president of the Girls’ School Association (GSA), has been popping up in the press recently with some quite alarming, and sometimes contradictory, notions.
Commenting on feminism and fashion and the recent story about Cambridge female undergrads’ scantily clad…
AND THE WINNER IS…
Posted by Laura on August 27, 2009
Tags: Children, Education, Employment, Equality, News, Pay Gap, Politics, Youth
As reported here boys this year overtook girls in maths GCSE. Why? Because of the eradication of the coursework and it being purely assessed now by exams; which, we are told, boys do better at. We are told “Coursework…
LESSONS ON FORMING NONVIOLENT RELATIONSHIPS REALLY AS EASY AS ABC?
Posted by Laura on August 5, 2009
Tags: Articles, Children, Domestic Violence, Education, Fat Politics, News, Violence Against Women, Youth
Today’s The Daily Mail reported on Harriet Harman’s initiative to tackle domestic violence through compulsory lessons on forming healthy relationships for children five and upwards. Before I explain my views on Harman’s proposals, I just want to comment…
V IS FOR VOICEBOX
Posted by Charlotte on August 1, 2009
Tags: date, internet, Youth
Voicebox is a new (to me, at least) site collating data on youth and young peoples opinions.
Each month, we’ll have new themes, and you’ll be able to play with the results by age, gender, location and ethnicity.
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LITTLE MISS ARE YOU REALLY DOING THIS TO YOUR CHILD?
Posted by Charlotte on July 29, 2009
Tags: Art, Beauty Pageant, Children, Youth
Hot on the heels of Pink Stinks revulsion at child beauty pageants The Illusionists, film in progress and brilliant blog, linked me to these terrifying pictures of teeny youth beauty contestants. Cue crying.
Images by Susan Anderson
Charlotte