gender equality

Students participated in an interactive evening of discussion regarding gender equality on campus led by the SU officers on Wednesday Evening. Keen to enforce the idea that ‘#HeForShe a launchpad to build an umbrella campaign’ to tackle gender inequality within the university, Angharad Smith and Sarah Pickup stated that...

The University of Nottingham is set to welcome the HeForShe campaign to its University Park campus on Wednesday 30th September with the inaugural #GetFree tour. Launched in 2014 by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson, HeForShe aims to create a global conversation about gender...

Women have, unsurprisingly for a demographic that accounts for more than half the world’s population, contributed some sizeable amount to our musical cultural cache. But when lists of the greatest artists to ever live posited, or even figureheads of vast swathes of genres we use to divide them named…...

Feminism. Perhaps one of the most misused and distorted terms in the English dictionary, but also one of the most powerful.  As a woman at university, living, breathing and learning among some of the country’s most educated young people, why is it this is still a term to be...

In 2014, The Global Gender Gap Report (World Economic Forum) revealed that Great Britain had reportedly fallen out of the top 20 index for gender equality: we now stand at (an embarrassingly not-so-Great) 26th. It is our lowest score for gender equality since 2008; providing further justification of the...

Equality is very much a hot topic in today’s society, highlighted daily by the media. Whether it’s homophobia, racism or sexism, the modern world is generally conscious of these pressing matters. Global sport has the platform to tackle these deep-seated cultural issues but predominantly fails to impact the sports-fandom....

What do we want? Equality! When do we want it? … About 100 years ago. Its been almost just over seven months since England Women brought the house down with the epic 21-9 win over Canada at Stade Jean-Bouin in Paris for the Women’s Rugby World Cup. Female rugby...