I'm an old time member, frequent name changer and new to this board,
I'm currently studying for my (professional) doctorate, and before I get to the thesis part, I need to do a shorter study into an area of policy that affects education. I think I want to do women's / girls' rights. Possibly to do with invisible women (loving that book, btw!) possibly to do with transgender issues in schools.
I have been in two minds about doing this topic for a long while, as there is something else I'm interested in too. But the debate on here over the past few days has cemented my mind. Women are being shouted down, and shut up, so maybe it's time to look at it from their perspective? Uni have given me the green light to study this.
So I've been reading stuff over the past six months or so as I've become more aware of this topic... but I thought I'd start by asking some ideas... where would you go? Are there any policies I'm not yet aware of? I was thinking about the Oxfordshire schoolgirl who got Oxfordshire to withdraw their policy on shared rooms on overnight trips... there's also the Keira bell case and whether the affirmation model is now right in schools. There's so much for me to learn, but I'm sure you can think of things I've never heard about... so where would you go with this? What don't I know about yet? What's a good place to start reading?
And sorry if I have asked this question before. I was considering it about 6 months ago, but I think I then decided against asking at the time... apologies if I did. I can't find anything in the chat but as I'm a regular name changer, I have no idea what my name would have been when I was thinking last time.