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Legislating for hatred against women: the view from the coalface (December 2020)
This blog may be accessed as a briefing here The omission of ‘sex’ as a protected characteristic is a key area of contention in the proposed Hate Crime and...
4th December 2020
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International evidence and the risks of reframing the sex question in the census
At the time of writing, the three UK census authorities (National Records of Scotland , Office for National Statistics, and the Northern Ireland Research and Statistics Authority) are planning...
30th November 2020
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Supplementary evidence on the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill (November 2020)
We have submitted supplementary evidence to the Justice Committee in the light of (a) an open letter currently circulating which has been signed by a number of parliamentarians and...
29th November 2020
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Sex, gender identity, and the erosion of academic norms
On 20 November Scottish Affairs published an advance online copy of our new article, ‘Losing Sight of Women’s Rights (Again), in which we defend an earlier paper, published by the...
21st November 2020
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Losing sight of women’s rights (again): A response to Cowan et al. Scottish Affairs
In August 2019, the peer-reviewed journal Scottish Affairs published our article ‘Losing Sight of Women’s Rights: the unregulated introduction of gender self-identification as a case study of policy capture...
13th November 2020
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Policy divergence in the UK census
Every ten years the census gives us a complete picture of the nation. It allows us to compare different groups of people across the United Kingdom because the same...
13th November 2020
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Letter from Sir Bernard Silverman to Sir Ian Diamond (30 October 2020)
Letter sent by Sir Bernard Silverman, Chair of the Methodological Assurance Review Panel for the 2021 Census to Sir Ian Diamond, ONS National Statistician on Friday 30 October 2020....
2nd November 2020
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Letter to Sir Bernard Silverman, Chair of the Methodological Assurance Review Panel for the 2021 Census (22 October 2020)
Letter sent to Sir Bernard Silverman, Chair of the Methodological Assurance Review Panel for the 2021 Census sent by email on Thursday 22 October 2020
22nd October 2020
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WPUK webinar slides ‘Sex and the census’
Presentation given to Woman’s Place UK webinar on sex in the census on 18 October 2020.
18th October 2020
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Back under the radar? A review of plans for the census
This blog looks at recent developments on the framing of the sex question in the next census. TimingThe UK census is undertaken by three separate census authorities: National Records...
24th September 2020