Archive for April 2006

“I am not motivated, I’m just responsible”

Apr 15th, 2006 | By Louise Beaver | Category: Personal Growth

One Sunday night, while fretting about ungraded year 10 papers, I was flicking through the channels and stopped to watch “Child of Our Time,” a social study where 20 British children born in 2000 will be documented until the age of 25. The purpose of the televised documentary is to see if their life experiences [...]

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Acknowledging Gender as an Issue in the Workplace

Apr 15th, 2006 | By Jennifer Worrall Lynch | Category: Economy, Feminism, Society

In the past year, the Equal Opportunities Commission in the UK has celebrated 30 years of the Sex Discrimination Act. The state of women’s employment has changed dramatically in this time. A couple of years before the Act was passed, only one in four mothers with pre-school children was working, but by 2004, this figure [...]

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