Making the tea or making it to the top? How gender stereotypes impact women fundraisers’ careers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth J. Dale ◽  
Beth Breeze
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Feminist Analysis ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Voluntary Organisations

This article explores gender stereotypes, discrimination and harassment in the fundraising profession and their impact on women’s fundraising careers. Using a feminist analysis, we investigate the types of gender-based stereotyping and harassment experienced by women who are members of the United Kingdom professional fundraising membership body, where 75% of female survey respondents reported experiencing stereotyping. Qualitative analysis of 366 respondents’ examples of gender-based stereotyping and data from three focus groups demonstrate how the fundraising profession is gendered, its impact on women and what actions need to be taken to tackle visible and unseen barriers that affect women’s careers. We conclude by emphasising the necessity for researchers to investigate non-profit and voluntary organisations with a critical orientation that accounts for the ways in which power is reinforced along categories of gender, age, race, class, disability and sexuality in order to realise the full potential of individual employees and the sector.

“Women Are Cancer, You Shouldn’t Be Working in Sport”: Sport Psychologists’ Lived Experiences of Sexism in Sport

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Aura Goldman ◽  
Misia Gervis
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Sport Psychology ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Power Differentials ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Gendered Power ◽  
The Impact

Though sexism has been recognized as problematic in sport, its impact on female sport psychologists in the United Kingdom has not yet been investigated. The purpose of this research was to explore the impact of sexism and its influence on practice. Four semistructured focus groups were conducted, comprising 11 sport psychologists who worked in the United Kingdom. Thematic analysis revealed four general themes: the environment, privileging masculinity, acts of sexism, and the feminine. Participants’ discourse suggests that female sport psychologists are impacted by sexism in their workplaces. Gendered power differentials, coupled with the low status of sport psychology within sport, exacerbated the challenges faced by female sport psychologists. This study contributes to making up for the dearth of research on the impact of sexism on sport psychologists. Suggestions are made with regard to implications for practice.

A Problem Shared? The Role of the Public in the Legitimation of Policy: A Case Study of Gendered Welfare Change in the United Kingdom

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Richards-Gray
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Disadvantaged Women ◽  
Welfare Change

Abstract This article argues that shared problematizations—shared political and public ways of thinking—legitimize policies and their outcomes. To support this argument, it examines the legitimation of gendered welfare reform in the recent U.K. context. Drawing on focus groups with the public, it provides evidence that the public’s problematization of welfare, specifically that reform was necessary to “make work pay” and “restore fairness”, aligned with that of politicians. It argues that the assumptions and silences underpinning this shared problematization, especially silences relating to the value and necessity of care, have allowed for welfare policies that have disadvantaged women.

Translating Local Issues in Global Formats: The Case of Memes

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Michela Canepari
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Visual Perspective ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Local Varieties ◽  
Global Models ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Selection Of

The present article aims to study the phenomenon of memes, in the attempt to identify the level of globalization vis à vis localization these communicative, social and cultural products voice. This article therefore presents a small selection of memes from both the United Kingdom and Italy, and briefly analyses them from a linguistic and visual perspective. For reasons of space, the quantitative analysis of the corpus will not be discussed at length here. However, the qualitative analysis of the memes selected for this study will prove that the majority of the existing material, while adapting to global formats and visuals, often exploits regional and local varieties of language. Thus, since language is the expression of specific cultures, the analysis demonstrates how, despite globalization, local (and localized) features of the communities that create memes survive in their uniqueness. Hence, since memes are privileged forms of communication among younger members of society, the results point to a generation of youth that, despite the tendency to follow global models, is well aware of the traditional and local cultures they stem from and strive to keep them alive. On the basis of this analysis, the article finally argues that memes – like many other products of popular culture – represent a privileged arena which, if studied systematically through the tools of discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, can reveal important aspects of the societies that produce them and their evolution. 

scholarly journals Salisbury tragedy: the news of the week’s narrative of Skripal case

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 00130
Author(s):  
Irina Volkova ◽  
Leila Algavi ◽  
Shuanat Kadyrova ◽  
Natalya Rastorgueva
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Research Group ◽  
International Research ◽  
Television Program ◽  
Media Impact ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
International Research Group ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media

This paper is the second part in the series of studies into the media impact on the transformation of the social and cultural structures in which societies operate. The authors (International Research Group KVAR) describe the results of a quantitative and qualitative analysis of transcripts of twenty-seven episodes of the “Vesti Nedeli” television program (Rossiya 1, 2018) depicting the mysterious poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal. The aim of this study is to find out in what way the journalists of “Vesti Nedeli” narrate and interpret the events in Salisbury. Based on C. Booker‘ classification, the authors explore the specific traits of the story plot about the Skripals case. The analysis leads to the conclusion that it is not the Skripals who are at the center of the narration but the United Kingdom and its attitude to Russia. The study identifies the narrative force drivers and the main actors and their subject-object roles: this is one of seven basic plots.

scholarly journals The missing group? Situating transnational contacts in defamilisation research

2020 ◽  
pp. 002087282094002
Author(s):  
Sam Wai Kam Yu ◽  
Liam Foster ◽  
Ruby Chui Man Chau
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Older People ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Insufficient Attention ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Family ◽  
Chinese Older People

Defamilisation research is increasingly seen as an important component of studies of welfare and social work. It is concerned with people’s vulnerability to defamilisation risks, which are caused by insufficient opportunities for people to choose whether and how they participate in the family. Despite an increasing emphasis on defamilisation research, there has been insufficient attention given to how studies of transnational contacts contribute to defamilisation research. This article argues for the need to expand the scope of defamilisation research to incorporate the concept of ‘transnational contact-led strategies’ using evidence from focus groups with Chinese older people in the United Kingdom.

A Review of the Statutory Valuation of Long-Term Insurance Business in the United Kingdom

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 803-864 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.W. Wright ◽  
S.J. Burgess ◽  
R.G. Chadburn ◽  
A.J.M. Chamberlain ◽  
R. Frankland ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Working Party ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Current Form ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Term Insurance ◽  
Insurance Business

ABSTRACTThis paper considers the approaches currently used by life offices for statutory valuations, and proposes a number of changes to current practice. It builds on the earlier work of Philip Scott's Working Party and a working party which reported on all aspects of unitised with-profits business to the 1996 CILA conference.Recommendations are made for each of the major categories of long-term business, in particular for the introduction of a bonus reserve standard for accumulating with-profits business, whilst retaining the net premium standard for conventional with-profits business. It is proposed that the current net premium approach for non-profit business should be replaced by a gross premium method. The paper also develops a greater codification of the calculation of non-unit reserves on linked business.Considerable emphasis is placed on the requirement for statutory reserves to have regard to PRE. It is assumed throughout that the E.C. Third Life Directive remains in its current form.A number of examples are provided which illustrate the proposed method for accumulating with-profits business. Appendices to the paper include a draft of suggested consequential changes to the Insurance Companies Regulations 1994, and a revised supporting version of the whole of GN8.

The History of Tidal Predictions in the United Kingdom before the Twentieth Century.

1972 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 13-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Rossiter
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Gravitational Theory ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Computational Techniques ◽  
Applied Theory ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Remarkable Feature ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Lord Kelvin

SynopsisThe relationship between the scientist for whom the theory of tides has always offered a fertile field for academic research, and the practical man whose operational need for tide tables has seldom coincided with the desire to seek a full understanding of tidal phenomena, have played a fundamental role in the development of accurate tidal predictions.Until the last decade, without the sympathetic collaboration of the scientist, the intelligent mariner was rarely able to satisfy the more demanding of his own requirements for tidal forecasts; academic dilettantism was (and still is) of little use to him. In the United Kingdom, the earliest recorded efforts, those of John Wallingford, Abbott of St Albans in the thirteenth century, were only intermittently improved, as for example by John Flamstead during the seventeenth century, until the full potential of Isaac Newton's work on gravitational theory was utilised systematically by Sir Joshua Lubbock, Lord Kelvin and Sir George Darwin in the second half of the nineteenth century. The extension and refinement of the framework of applied theory so formed was then taken over by A. T. Doodson until the dawn of the digital computation revolution just over a decade ago.The nature, scope and quality of tidal predictions over the centuries have seen many changes in response to demands for improvement, which are as pressing today as at any time in the past. Perhaps the most remarkable feature of this trend has been the way in which the development of techniques for observing tidal variations—the raw material from which predictions are derived—has failed to keep pace with advances in theory, computational techniques and practical usage.

scholarly journals Guest Editors’ Introduction

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (11) ◽  
pp. 1283-1289
Author(s):  
Ruth Lewis ◽  
Susan B. Marine
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Adaptive Approaches

In the midst of a wider resurgence of feminist activism, it is timely to ask whether current efforts to address gender-based violence (GBV) on campus are adequate. This guest editors’ introduction to the special issue considers whether our attention should be on transforming, rather than simply adapting, university environments. While critiquing adaptive approaches rooted in “compliance culture”, it sets out key elements of transformative approaches to GBV on campus. It introduces the articles in this special issue and their discussions about efforts to transform university environments in Canada, America and the United Kingdom. It finishes by highlighting enduring barriers to transformational work and areas for further investigation in our efforts to make institutions of higher education safe for all.

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