Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
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A statue of Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from the UK to Australia, has been unveiled in Hull.
Actress Maureen Lipman unveiled the statue, built to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the pilot’s death.
It also marks the end of the two-month Amy Johnson Festival in East Yorkshire in celebration of her life. More
The sixth European Women in Games Conference, taking place on Wednesday 7 September, will feature keynote speeches, panel discussions, workshops and networking opportunities. There will also be a competition which will give students the chance to promote themselves and their work to the wider gaming community.
Keynote speakers include Anne Morrison, the Deputy Chair of BAFTA; Terry Reintkte, German MEP and author of the European Parliament’s report on Gender Equality and empowering women in the digital age; and Jessica Curry, composer and co-founder of The Chinese Room. More
Women who return to work after having a baby fall even further behind men in earning power, a report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said.
The gap between hourly earnings of the two sexes becomes steadily wider after women become mothers, the IFS says.
Over the subsequent 12 years, women’s hourly pay rate falls 33% behind men’s. More
The new Star Trek TV series is to centre on a female character, the show’s executive producer has revealed.
Bryan Fuller said Star Trek Discovery will feature about seven lead roles, but will focus on a female lieutenant commander instead of the captain.
According to Deadline, it is thought the lead character will not be white in an effort to increase diversity. More
The UK’s first named memorial statue for a black woman, Mary Seacole, is to be unveiled in London later.
She was a Jamaican-born nurse who cared for wounded British soldiers during the Crimean War in the 19th Century.
The statue’s completion follows a 12-year campaign, which raised £500,000 to honour Mrs Seacole. More
Women will join jousting competitions at English castles for the first time this summer, English Heritage has confirmed.
Female knights will battle against male counterparts at Bolsover, Kenilworth, Pendennis and Carisbrooke castles. More
National Women in Engineering Day – 23 June 2016 – a day dedicated to raising the profile and celebrating the achievements of women in engineering. Find out more here
Perhaps the biggest story of the football year is in east Asia, where Eastern won the Hong Kong Premier League title in April. The wait since the last championship had been 21 years but the headlines were all about the 27 year-old head coach Chan Yuen-ting.
Just days after lifting the trophy, she was presented with another prize. This time it came from the Guinness Book of World Records, for being the first woman to win a top-flight title in men’s professional football. More
The BBC has announced that it aims to get more women into positions of authority by 2020, but what was the situation in the early years of the organisation? Dr Kate Murphy has been researching the era for a new book.
The 1920s were a time of great contrasts for working women. On the one hand the vote had been won in 1918 (for those aged over 30) and the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 had removed most barriers to the professions. More
From carrying coal to transporting tourists, the canals of the North have taken a variety of loads, but a new narrowboat is bringing something unusual to the waterways – a women-only arts centre.
The Idle Women project, aimed at addressing “the urgent need for women’s space” and providing “a radical redress of power, acknowledgement and voice”, has been put together by caretakers Rachel Anderson and Cis O’Boyle.
It centres around the Selina Cooper, a renovated butty with both a living area and an arts space which will travel the canals for the next two years, giving women a chance to “take off armour and just relax and breathe a little”, Anderson says. More