{"title":"How can rape investigations be enhanced? Consideration of attrition in rape cases: Second follow-up study","authors":"Zoe E. Callon, Fay Sweeting, Erin Firth","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2022.5.2.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2022.5.2.33","url":null,"abstract":"Attrition of rape cases is highest during the police investigation. As annually increasing reports of rape contrast with low conviction rates, this research determines which features of an investigation impact the likelihood of attrition. Cox Proportional Hazards Analysis of 620 rape cases highlights where and when attrition is greatest, in order to improve each stage of the investigation. The analysis found initial attendance by uniformed officers and conducting an interview significantly decreased attrition likelihood. Alternatively, matching the gender of officer to victim significantly increased likelihood. Moreover, victim-perpetrator relationship significantly impacted case length.","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115376847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Five Years On from the 2017 Menopause at Work Report: Progress, Potholes, Practical implementation and Prospective Research Pathways – Tabitha Pickup in conversation with Joanna Brewis","authors":"Tabitha Pickup","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2022.5.2.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2022.5.2.17","url":null,"abstract":"Three years ago… an employer might have said to us, ‘well, why should I do anything?’ … Now the question that tends to be asked is ‘why wouldn’t you do something?’ Joanna Brewis gave a keynote on ‘Why menopause is a workplace issue and what is still left to do’. Tabitha Pickup interviews her about the talk.","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127287648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring gendered experiences: A phenomenological study of women working in STEM","authors":"Maxine Hyde","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2022.5.2.64","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2022.5.2.64","url":null,"abstract":"Psychological research has shown that globally STEM (science, technology, engineering mathematics) disciplines have historically and traditionally been considered male dominated environments, with a significant under-representation of women in both educational and professional positions. This phenomenological study sought to explore the lived experiences of women in the UK who chose to enter these industries. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with three female participants currently employed within a professional STEM position, with the intention of qualifying and conceptualising their experiences in the industry. Thematic analysis uncovered three themes that underpinned this socio-cultural phenomenon; female underrepresentation, age-based attitudinal differences and sexist tendencies. The study indicated that attending to the identified themes may positively enhance women’s experiences of STEM, whilst encouraging them into the industry. Overall, the main objective was to understand how women experience STEM workplaces.","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134065304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parenting, partnerships & a pandemic: In conversation with Abi Locke","authors":"J. Law","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2022.5.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2022.5.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114060090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Curating the history of POWES and Feminist Psychology in the UK: In conversation with Rose Capdevila","authors":"Lucy Eldred","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2022.5.2.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2022.5.2.9","url":null,"abstract":"Rose Capdevila is a Professor at the Open University whose research interest focuses on gender in digital spaces, taking a critical feminist and poststructuralist approach to her research. Rose is currently working on a longer-term project with colleagues Katherine Hubbard (Surrey) and Lois Donnelly (Worchester) exploring the History of Feminist Psychology in the U.K. At the 2022 POWES Conference, Rose presented her keynote speech entitled ‘If I could turn back time’ which curated and reflected on the history of POWES and Feminist Psychology within the U.K., in which she discusses some of the work she has been doing with Katherine and Lois. As someone who missed the POWES 2022 conference, Rose and I organised an email interview to (digitally) discuss her keynote and covered areas beginning with Rose’s history with POWES, the evolution of her keynote research and some of the interesting findings from the work, concluding by considering the important work that can be done in feminist spaces and importance of memorialising feminist knowledge and contribution.","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129940011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘I try to be true to myself but other people have to fit you into a box’: Exploring how voluntarily childfree women discursively negotiate their sense of self in a pronatalist society","authors":"Ruth Hutchinson","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2022.5.2.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2022.5.2.23","url":null,"abstract":"Women who have consciously remained free of having children, also known as voluntarily childfree (Blackstone, 2019), occupy liminal spaces created for them by dominant social discourses that valorise reproduction and vilify childfreedom (Gotlib, 2016). Reproductive desire is socially constructed as biologically innate (Franke, 2010) and pronatalist discourses construct voluntarily childfree (VC) women as making an ‘unnatural’ choice (Gillespie, 2003). This research aims to explore how socially constructed positions about voluntarily childfree women have impacted their sense of self. Feminist Relational Discourse Analysis (Thompson et al., 2018) was used to listen for contrapuntal voices within VC women’s negotiation of identities. Through semi-structured interviews with six women, three prominent discourses were heard: Negotiating Identity in a Pronatalist Society; Still Being a Woman Whilst Not Being a Mother; and Political Implications of Being Voluntarily Childfree. Contrapuntal voices heard within these discourses highlighted that VC women skilfully negotiate complex and conflicting subject positions to create space for their identities as women. The complex nature of VC women’s subjective experience of selfhood serves as a challenge to the homogenised view of women’s identity perpetuated by the patriarchal discourses prevalent in political structures of social policies, healthcare and workplace settings.","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"886 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132098240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Personalised normative feedback as an intervention for sexism and rape myth acceptance","authors":"R. Skinner, J. McAlaney, Terri Cole, P. Hills","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2022.5.2.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2022.5.2.52","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115843014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The importance of being trauma and gender-informed when working with women within the criminal justice system: A literature review","authors":"April Phillips, C. Miles, M. Smyth","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2022.5.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2022.5.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"It is widely recognised that women have been failed by the criminal justice system (CJS), with recommendations for improvement often not being implemented. The combined effects of being subjected to violence, substance abuse and trauma impact on a woman’s journey through the CJS but also contribute to her individual needs. The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) aims to support women to live crime free, reduce the number of women entering the CJS, seek alternatives to custody, integrate services and set the standard for future work carried out by the MOJ. Recent literature suggests women are misplaced within the CJS and not offered appropriate support for their needs, therefore, this literature review outlines ‘what works’ with women who have committed or are at risk of committing crime, highlighting the value of taking a trauma and gender-informed approach. The initial purpose of the review was to inform the implementation of The Female Offending Blueprint in Wales (MOJ, 2019) by advising on a best practice approach with women involved in the CJS. However, the review will have UK-wide implications for women’s services, identifying potential improvements to offer the best care and support.","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126654073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical Social Psychology of Class","authors":"","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2022.5.1.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2022.5.1.55","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115026224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Under exposed: Qualitative exploration of the inequality, ill treatment, and powerlessness of actresses","authors":"Frances Weir, Milda Perminienė","doi":"10.53841/bpspowe.2022.5.1.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpspowe.2022.5.1.45","url":null,"abstract":"Recent media attention has highlighted the harassment of women within the acting industry, yet the industry’s organisational culture is under-researched. This research therefore aims to understand how actresses perceive the acting industry’s organisational culture. Individual, semi-structured interviews were held with six professional performers. Semantic thematic analysis guided analysis of the data. Participants indicated three major themes that captured certain peculiarities of the acting industry: (1) an inequitable environment; (2) the normalisation of ill treatment; (3) powerlessness. Participants described a largely imbalanced and unregulated industry, characterised by unhealthy processes. Based on the present study’s findings, the researchers suggest that there should be an organisational body responsible for preventing actresses’ exploitation, and gender-parity at all levels, inclusive of pay. In addition, robust, ethical recruitment processes would eradicate the prevalence of ill treatment, whilst the safeguarding of individuals should be introduced within education and the workplace.","PeriodicalId":253858,"journal":{"name":"Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130919671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}