The Equality Lecture: Professor Mary Evans – The Persistence of Gender Inequality

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Channel: British Library · 2018 · Education

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In the seventh annual British Sociological Association/British Library Equality Lecture, held on 23 October 2017, Professor Mary Evans questioned the notion that gender equality has been largely achieved in the ‘first’ world. She drew on her recent book ‘The Persistence of Gender Inequality’ to argue that there are new ways in which gender inequality is being formed which continue to result in demonstrable inequalities between men and women.

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