Educating Generation Z about Issues Relating to Gender Equality in the Governance and Leadership of Sport in the UK

2022 ◽  
pp. 217-232
Author(s):  
Gillian Renfree ◽  
Beth Burgess ◽  
Vanessa Jones
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals Generation Z and Organizational Listening on Social Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna Reinikainen ◽  
Jaana T. Kari ◽  
Vilma Luoma-aho
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Age Cohort ◽  
The Uk

Young people are avid users of social media and have appeared as a powerful force for social change, as shown by the ranks of those who have joined Greta Thunberg in the global climate movement. In addition to challenging political institutions and governments, young people today are also holding the corporate world accountable. To respond to young people’s expectations, brands, and organizations have turned to social media to interact and build relationships with them. However, critics have lamented that these attempts often fail and that young people’s trust in institutions, brands, and organizations continues to decline. This article asks how young people perceive organizational listening on social media and whether their perceptions are related to their trust in the information shared by brands and other organizations on social media. Data for the study were gathered through an online survey in Finland and the UK. The respondents (N = 1,534), aged 15–24, represent the age cohort known as Generation Z. The results show that organizational listening is connected to higher levels of perceived benefits from social media as well as higher levels of trust in the information that brands, public authorities, and non-governmental organizations share on social media. The results highlight the role of competent listening on social media, bolstering the previous literature connecting both organizational listening and trust with higher levels of participation and engagement online.

scholarly journals Experiencing Gender Regimes: Accounts of Women Professors in Mexico, the UK and Sweden

2021 ◽  
pp. 095001702110412
Author(s):  
Laurie Cohen ◽  
Joanne Duberley ◽  
Beatriz Adriana Bustos Torres
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Ideal Type ◽  
Career Experiences ◽  
Gender Regime ◽  
Gender Regimes ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
Women Professors ◽  
The Ideal

This article investigates differences between statistics on gender equality in Mexico, the UK and Sweden, and similarities in women professors’ career experiences in these countries. We use Acker’s inequality regime framework, focusing on gender, to explore our data, and argue that similarities in women professors’ lived experiences are related to an image of the ideal academic. This ideal type is produced in the interplay of the university gender regime and other gender regimes, and reproduced through the process of structuration: signification, domination and legitimation. We suggest that the struggle over legitimation can also be a trigger for change.

Gender, Parenting and Practices in Child Welfare Social Work? A Comparative Study from England, Ireland, Norway and Sweden

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karina Nygren ◽  
Julie C Walsh ◽  
Ingunn T Ellingsen ◽  
Alastair Christie
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
The Uk

Abstract This article explores ways in which gender equality, family policy and child welfare social work intersect in four countries: England, Ireland, Norway and Sweden. Over time, conditions for gender equality in parenting have improved, partly due to family policy developments removing structural barriers. These changes, however, vary between countries; Sweden and Norway are considered more progressive as compared with the UK and Ireland. Here, we draw on focus group data collected from child welfare social workers in England, Ireland, Norway and Sweden to compare these different contextual changes and how these are reflected in related social work practice decisions. The focus group discussions were based on a vignette, and thematic analysis was applied. Overall, welfare social workers are aware of the need to support gender equality in parenting, there is a heavy focus on mothers in child welfare practice decisions, and fathers are largely absent. Uniquely, we show that this is influenced by both a strong child-centred perspective, and a gendered risk perspective, in which fathers are seen to pose more risk to the children than mothers.

Gender equality, pedagogy and citizenship

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeleine Arnot
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Democratic Rights ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Pedagogical Debate

This article explores the relationship between gender equality, pedagogy and citizenship. It locates the analysis of education within the gender dilemmas associated with liberal democratic citizenship. Of particular concern is the tension between the promotion of equality and difference. Nancy Fraser's distinctions between redistribution and recognition and between affirmative and transformative remedies are used to explore two phases in the pedagogical debate around gender equality and difference in the UK since the 1970s.These phases demonstrate the contradictions associated with gender as a ‘bivalent collectivity’ – a collectivity defined through both economic and cultural/representational forms. The conclusion argues for a ‘critical pedagogy of difference’which promotes pedagogic democratic rights as well as critical gender identities.

Equality and diversity: a new approach to gender equality policy in the UK

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalia Ben-Galim ◽  
Mary Campbell ◽  
Jane Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Gender Equality Policy ◽  
Equality And Diversity ◽  
The Eu

In 2007 the UK established a new single equalities body, to bring together the existing equality Commissions dealing with gender, disability, and race and ethnicity into a Commission for Equality and Human Rights. The promotion and enforcement of ‘equality and diversity’ is one of the three duties of the new body. This paper briefly explores diversity in relation to the theory of gender equality and also examines developments in policy at the EU level, which has provided much of the impetus for change. Our focus is on the policy approach and the tensions that the policy documents reveal about the emphasis on equality and diversity approach, in particular the extent to which attention to gender issues may get lost in the diversity bundle, and the extent to which a focus on the individual may be strengthened over the group.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Pandemic and Gender Inequality in the Labour Market in the UK

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Razzu
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Labour Force Participation ◽  
Distributional Consequences ◽  
Employment Gap ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Uk

Although the movement towards gender equality in the labour market has slowed in recent decades, a long-term view over the 20th century shows the significant narrowing of the gender employment gap in the UK, a result of the increases in women’s labour force participation and employment combined with falling attachment to the labour force among men. It is too early to assess with precision the extent to which these patterns will be affected by the Covid-19 pandemic but emerging evidence and informed speculation do suggest that there will be important distributional consequences. Various studies, produced at an unprecedented rate, are pointing out that the effects of Covid-19 are not felt equally across the population; on the contrary labour market inequalities appear to be growing in some dimensions and there are reasons to believe that they will grow more substantially in the medium term.

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