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45 posts todayRT @BasedLd: Please support this call to action. Write to your local MP. #womenCountSoCountW... https://t.co/SVTan5...
RT @BasedLd: Please support this call to action. Write to your local MP. #womenCountSoCountW... https://t.co/SVTan5...
RT @MsGiveZeroFox: “Biological sex is well-understood to exert a key influence over experiences and outcomes from birth onwards. It is one of the most important variables for the purposes of policy, planning and research” - @mbmpolicy ...
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Oral evidence to the Women & Equalities Select Committee Inquiry into the Reform of the GRA. Witnesses: Karon Monaghan QC, Robin White, Naomi Cunningham, Sally Brett https://t.co/RcB0IS... #SexMatters ...
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RT @helensaxby11: This is important for the future of women's rights and services. Please look at this @CarolineLucas https://t.co/ZanPu1...
RT @LabWomenDec: Must-read @Womans_Place_UK thread on their new Sex & the Census Report -"The Erasure of Sex". Includes call to ALL to email our MPs to alert them to the report arriving in their offices & inboxes overnight. MPs keep telling ...
Read our correspondence with the National Statistician https://t.co/ZYfspG... #WomenCountSoCountW...
We posted last October about the battle to keep sex in the census here https://t.co/6bj6Ew... #WomenCountSoCountW...
Watch this important webinar on sex and the census with @ProfAliceS @janeclarejones @lnmackenzie1 @selina_todd https://t.co/eHRNAM... Then contact your political representative about the Political Erasure of Sex #WomenCountSoCountW...
RT @WepWomen: @ManduReid @WEP_UK Please protect women's human rights. #sexmatters #sexnotgender #WomenCountSoCountW... https://t.co/KvkWe6...
RT @WepWomen: To learn more about why #sexmatters and why #WomenCountSoCountW... please watch @Womans_Place_UK in conversation with lead feminist voices in the field: https://t.co/aX9l6b...
Call to action - we have sent your political representative a copy of The Political Erasure of Sex by @janeclarejones with @lnmackenzie1 Please contact them to check they received their copy and ask them what they are going to do ...
RT @MaternityAction: We've joined with 20 organisations & trade unions to call on Business Secretary @KwasiKwarteng to act swiftly upon yesterday's @Commonswomequ recommendation, adopt @MariaMillerUK's Pregnancy & Maternity (Redundancy ...
RT @MForstater: Karon Monaghan - Sex is about biology, gender is the social aspects - it conflates them https://t.co/bsthnC...
RT @MForstater: Live tweets from @Commonswomequ with @moira_robin @k21fem @legalfeminist Naomi Cunningham and @SallyBrett2 @TheLawSociety Well done all. A bit more sunlight, clarity and debate on the arguments. https://t.co/bo8Io8...
RT @WepWomen: The Political Erasure of Sex: Sex and the Census funded by Oxford Uni has been beautifully bound & sent to every MP in England, Scotland, Wales & NI Please email your MP in the coming days (template in thread) to let them know ...
RT @anyabike: If you're using "fishy" to mean "womanly" you're a misogynist. If drag culture says it's ok to refer to women as "fish", drag culture is misogynist too. If you don't believe me, a woman, here's gay male journalist Patrick Strudwick on ...
RT @CforWomenUK: 1/6 #SixWords For the word ‘person’ substitute ‘woman’ It is beyond belief that it has taken governments 103 years to notice women in government may have babies. We are very pleased to see long overdue recognition of this fact. But ...
RT @JammersMinde: #WomenCountSoCountW... #WomenWontWheesht https://t.co/YxZK4l...
RT @StoatlyL: #WomenCountSoCountW... - please read this thread and write to yr MP, MSPs and AMs. https://t.co/DL8jeC...
RT @milenacontent: @ProfAliceS @Keir_Starmer Indeed -- Holborn & St Pancras has some of the highest indeces of deprivation in the country. I hope that Camden Council also recognises the significance of this information @Georgia_Gould please do ...
#WomenCountSoCountW... https://t.co/bMtX4u...
Saudi women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul released from prison
RT @Mocha_Soul: This is such good news. Welcome out #Loujain Solidarity! https://t.co/vz7aPZ...
RT @Mocha_Soul: I hope my MP @DominicRaab reads this research and realises the importance of sex in all sorts of statistics. #WomenCountSoCountW... https://t.co/BdL08y...
RT @AngryReasonably: This is so important #WomenCountSoCountW... https://t.co/ro0ehD...
RT @RebeccaMKBull: Women’s Place U.K. will shortly be sending you research into how sex data is already being negatively affected and why this is important. Please look out for it in your post. #WomenCountSoCountW... https://t.co/YKHZgR...
RT @christinesculpt: Dame Ethel Smyth is now finally finished in clay and I have been putting on rubber, working long days alone in lockdown. https://t.co/xMiveI...
RT @ProfAliceS: I hope my MP @Keir_Starmer will take a look. Sex based data matter a great deal if you care about tackling inequalities. #WomenCountSoCountW... https://t.co/zWtEcu...
RT @lnmackenzie1: The sex question used by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) incorporates an ‘other’ option which it states is ‘included for staff whose sex aligns with terms such as intersex, androgyne, intergender, ambigender, gender ...
RT @lnmackenzie1: A survey by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine considering how people were coping with the Covid pandemic and how information about the disease was being shared in communities listed five potential responses to the ...
RT @lnmackenzie1: Less than a month later, new users signing up to the app were presented with a revised version of the sex question (screenshots taken on 20 April 2020): https://t.co/FB5ULL...
RT @lnmackenzie1: When the Kings College London Zoe Covid App launched, it carried a question about users' sex which was framed in this way (screenshots taken on 24 March 2020): https://t.co/OPOmMF...
RT @lnmackenzie1: In correspondence with someone who had been invited to respond to this survey, YouGov said that it had implemented the change to reflect the forthcoming UK census, and that other market research companies were planning to do the ...
RT @lnmackenzie1: The census sets the standard for other data collection exercises and practices. A recent YouGov survey asked respondents to identify themselves ‘on the gender spectrum’ and, it appears, entirely omitted a question that asked for ...
RT @lnmackenzie1: The census in England and Wales will take place on 21 March. The Office for National Statistics has abandoned the principle of collecting data on biological sex. This report sets out how they arrived at this position. Please take a ...
Sex and the Census: Call to Action - Woman's Place UK
CALL TO ACTION: In 2020 we collaborated with @UniofOxford to support research into the Political Erasure of Sex. The report from this project, Sex and the Census by @janeclarejones with @lnmackenzie1 is available online https://t.co/rkmMqh...
RT @hibiscuits1: @WomenInUNISON @Womans_Place_UK @SBSisters https://t.co/M6bwO1...
RT @davedhjones: @Womans_Place_UK This excellent documentary about her is still available on BBC iPlayer Hollywood's Brightest Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story: https://t.co/e02uXI... via @bbciplayer ...
Mahalia Jackson "The Queen of Gospel" (1911-1972) US. Internationally famous Gospel singer. Influenced by Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. A Civil rights activist; she sang on the March on Washington and defied death threats to sing in Montgomery to raise ...
Mahalia Jackson "The Queen of Gospel" (1911-1972) US. Internationally famous Gospel singer. Influenced by Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. A Civil rights activist; she sang on the March on Washington and defied death threats to sing in Montgomery to raise ...
RT @davedhjones: @Womans_Place_UK Hedy Lamarr. A film star and brilliant inventor who we owe our thanks to for GPS, WiFi and drone technology https://t.co/Vv5HCH...