social science sites of the week archive 18th september

 Here is the latest round up of new and interesting sites of the week

 

UNESCO Impact of Covid-19 on education

Useful for international comparisons at all levels

 

United States: Federal and State Executive Responses to COVID-19

Useful summary from the Library of  Congress

 

COVID-19 Data Portal

The UN Development Coordination Office has a new data portal tracking the work of UN teams to tackle COVID-19 in 162 countries and territories. The web portal focuses on UN humanitarian work it also looks at the implementation of national socio economic plans



Platform for Redesign 2020: Online Platform on Sustainable and Resilient Recovery from COVID-19 (environmental policy)

A new portal from  the Government of Japan with support from UN Climate Change.
The new platform is a hub that collates countries’ climate and other environmental policies and actions that are planned and implemented in the context of recovery from COVID-19., the website contains resources and details regarding the Online Ministerial Meeting on 3 September 2020, at which ministers and high-level officials of UNFCCC Parties will exchange their views and information on climate and other environmental measures relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic

 

 

Unified Court Records Database (UCR)

The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism) launched  new Unified Court Records database (UCR), which for the first time brings together all public judicial records of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the Mechanism. free registration required 



what are the financial returns from a postgraduate degree?

Interesting IFS report which looks at which degrees bring the most financial rewards and considers the impact of the family background.

one result- Compared with otherwise-similar individuals who don’t go beyond undergraduate level, by age 35 women with a masters degree earn 2% more and men 2% less.



 18th September is designated International Equal pay day

 

Some key documents are: 

·         Human Rights Council resolution on Equal Pay (2019)

·         ILO Centenary Declaration (2019)

·         World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends for Women (2018

 

Key organisations 

·         Equal Pay International Coalition (EPIC)

·         Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Women’s Economic

For information on the UK see

 

Gender pay gap reporting service- find data on companies with over 250 employees

2019 ONS gender pay gap data

Fawcett society campaigns and commentary 

TUC trade union commentary 

Equal Pay Portal has a good set of links to statistics and advice

IFS has detailed economic analysis of trends



Black womens suffrage collection launched

 

Great site from the Digital Public Library of America, free access to thousands of primary source documents including letters, manuscripts and photos, political posters  from the 19th century until the liberation movement of the 1960s . Includes school segregation and black Panther collections

includes the Ida B. Wells Barnett Papers from the University of Chicago,  Other features of the site are a timeline of events and biographies of key campaigners.

 

Middle East Womens Activism collection

it comprises Middle East Women’s Activism digital archive is a collection of interviews with 96 women of different generations in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, which form the basis of a monograph, entitled, Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. All interviews were conducted by Nicola Pratt, University of Warwick, in 2013-2014 as part of a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship exploring the relationship between gender and geopolitics in the context of the Middle East. 

 

Each day I have been sending out positive and inspiring thought via twitter

See more inspiring and positive thoughts for the day on twitter and the website

@socialsciencec2

https://socialsciencecurrentawareness.wordpress.com/

 

heather Dawson

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