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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Women's Budget Group: For A Gender Equal Future

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arranfan · 18/11/2018 18:32

I have no words for this. I admire so many of the economists and scholars involved with them and they have done some fine analysis of the impacts of The Budget and austerity on women.

Yet, they're all about gender rather than women it seems with no explanation as to how this impacts data collation and analysis.

Plus, they have the lack of insight to tweet the quote from UN rapporteur Alston's report:

if you got a group of misogynists in a room and said how can we make this system work for men and not for women they would not have come up with too many ideas that are not already in place' UN rep Alston_UNSR on austerity in UK

Or do they think Alston was referring to the new understanding of woman there?

twitter.com/WomensBudgetGrp/status/1063724020162531329

They also have 2 job vacancies - and they'd like feminists with a firm commitment to gender equality. So, presumably that's GC feminists who might wonder how they manage to conflate sex and gender who need not apply. NB, they do want a fair amount for the money on offer. People with a post-graduate research degree and understanding of economic analysis who are also good event managers, do general office admin, manage projects etc.

wbg.org.uk/recruitment/

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Ereshkigal · 18/11/2018 19:47

*Yet, they're all about gender rather than women it seems with no explanation as to how this impacts data collation and analysis.^

Chatting with some colleagues last week (who I peak transed) many people just think it's the polite way to say "sex". And sex is exactly what they mean.

arranfan · 18/11/2018 20:28

WBG's response to the GRA consultation had some useful nuance but I'm a little taken aback by their support for gender rather than sex in so many other areas on their site:

wbg.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/GRA-consultation-response-from-WBG-FINAL.pdf

And, I think they're a little too credulous about no amendments to the EqA despite the conflicts with the GRA.

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