International Women's Day
The International Women's Day 2022 campaign theme is #BreakTheBias. All of the work we publish does exactly this, by calling out bias, stereotypes and discrimination.
Browse book highlights and free journal articles below.
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Book highlights
Free journal articles for International Women's day
This collection of journal articles supports the International Women’s Day 2022 mission to raise awareness of gender bias, take action for equality and celebrate progress. The articles are all free to read and download throughout the month of March. The collection includes research from:
Critical and Radical Social Work
European Journal of Politics and Gender
Emotions and Society
Evidence & Policy
Families, Relationships and Society
Global Discourse
International Journal of Care and Caring
Journal of Gender-Based Violence
Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice
Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
Journal of Psychosocial Studies
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Policy & Politics
Critical and Radical Social Work
Angela Davis: political activist, radical intellectual and an inspiration for social work
Belkin Martinez, Dawn
Compulsory female sterilisation in Brazil: reproductive rights for whom?
Menandro, Leila Marchezi Tavares; Barrett, Hazel Rose;
European Journal of Politics and Gender
Feminist critical friends: dilemmas of feminist engagement with governance and gender reform agendas
Chappell, Louise; Mackay, Fiona
A different Women, Peace and Security is possible? Intersectionality in Women, Peace and Security resolutions and national action plans
Smith, Sarah; Stavrevska, Elena B.
Exploring women’s vision(s) of peace: towards feminist peace in Myanmar and Georgia?
Cárdenas, Magda Lorena
Gender norms, global hierarchies and the evolution of feminist foreign policy
Thomson, Jennifer
Female leader popularity and the vote, 1996–2016: a global exploratory analysis
Dassonneville, Ruth; Quinlan, Stephen; McAllister, Ian;
Building feminist peace: gender, legal reforms and social reproduction after the United Nations Mission in Liberia
de Almagro, Maria Martin
The origins of gender-targeted public finance measures: the case of New Brunswick, Canada
Everitt, Joanna; Albaugh, Quinn M.
Revisiting gender-neutral policy from a trans perspective: a look at Northern Ireland
Hagen, Jamie J.; Deiana, Maria-Adriana; Roberts, Danielle
Feminist peace or state co-optation? The Women, Peace and Security agenda in Myanmar
Olivius, Elisabeth; Hedström, Jenny; Phyo, Zin Mar
Gender and ambitions for elected and appointed political positions: insights from Norway
Kolltveit, Kristoffer
Where is the party? Explaining positions on same-sex marriage in Europe among would-be members of parliament
Siegel, Scott N.; Turnbull-Dugarte, Stuart J.; Olinger, Brian A.
Feeling protected: protective masculinity and femininity from Donald Trump and Joe Biden to Jacinda Ardern
Johnson, Carol
The Pursuit of Happiness: Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism
Piwoni, Eunike
Creating an action plan to advance knowledge translation in a domestic violence research network: a deliberative dialogue
Cameron, Jacqui; Humphreys, Cathy; Kothari, Anita; Hegarty, Kelsey
Engaging refugee women and girls as experts: co-creating evidence on sexual exploitation and abuse in humanitarian crises using creative, participatory methods
Potts, Alina; Fattal, Loujine; Kolli, Harriet;
Families, Relationships and Society
Schooling, work and house life: women’s triple shifts in times of a global health crisis
Joiko, Sara
Gendering the job demands-resources model: work‐family conflict in Taiwan
Lui, Lake;Chang, Chin-fen
‘We will march side by side and demand a bigger table’: anger as dignity claim
Adkins, Karen
International Journal of Care and Caring
Care horizons and career choices for women managers
McKie, Linda; Jyrkinen, Marjut
The legal protection of women migrant domestic workers from the Philippines and Sri Lanka: an intersectional rights-based approach
Henderson, Sophie
Journal of Gender-Based Violence
A feminist-intersectional analysis of sexual violence experienced by Nigerian women who are living in England
Ajayi, Chinyere Elsie; Chantler, Khatidja; Radford, Lorraine
Gender- and power sensitivity, securitisation and social peace: rethinking protection for children exposed to post-separation violence
Knezevic, Zlatana; Nikupeteri, Anna; Laitinen, Merja; Kallinen, Kati
Digital technologies and gender-based violence ‐ mechanisms for oppression, activism and recovery
Barter, Christine; Koulu, Sanna
Reflections on the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme (England and Wales)
Duggan, Marian
Violence against women in West Bengal: its extent and causes
Biswas, Chaiti Sharma; Pal, Manoranjan; Bharati, Premananda
Out of place: women’s experiences of policing in protest spaces
Monk, Helen; Jackson, Will
Feminism, power and politics in policing rape research: time for a paradigm shift
Geoghegan-Fittall, Sophie; Skinner, Tina; Stanko, Betsy; Geoghegan-Fittall, Sophie; Skinner, Tina; Stanko, Betsy;
Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice
Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
‘Period poverty’ in Stoke-on-Trent, UK: new insights into gendered poverty and the lived experiences of austerity
Briggs, Alison
Putting gender and capabilities into the equation: transformative evaluation for enhancing social justice
Moral-Espín, Lucía del Espinosa Fajardo, Julia
Journal of Psychosocial Studies
Melancholic communities: trauma, neoliberalism and the rise of Chat magazine
Stroud, Lucinda Rose
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Stability and mobility in occupational career patterns over 36 years in Swiss women and men
Häfeli, Kurt; Hättich, Achim; Schellenberg, Claudia; Krauss, Annette; Ritschard, Gilbert
The development of gendered occupational aspirations across adolescence: examining the role of different types of upper-secondary education
Basler, Ariane; Kriesi, Irene; Imdorf, Christian;
Challenging boundaries to expand frontiers in gender and policy studies
Lombardo, Emanuela; Meier, Petra;
The politics of intersectional practice: competing concepts of intersectionality
Christoffersen, Ashlee