1 The inexorable rise of the rational consumer? New Labour and the reshaping of social housing In 2000 the Government set out an ambitious reform agenda relating to the access to and pricing of social housing and the mechanisms for subsidizing its tenants. This paper reviews available evaluation

More than 30 million titles of “academic ” articles, from the years 1945–2001, were surveyed for occurrences of the words sex and gender. At the beginning of this period, uses of gender were much rarer than uses of sex, and often used in the sense of a grammatical category. By the end of this period, uses of gender outnumbered uses of sex in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. Within the natural sciences, there was now more than 1 use of gender for every 2 uses of sex. The beginnings of this change in usage can be traced to Money’s introduction of the concept of “gender role ” in 1955 (J. Money, 1955). However, the major expansion in the use of gender followed its adoption by feminists to distinguish the social and cultural aspects of differences between men and women (gender) from biological differences (sex). Since then, the use of gender has tended to expand to encompass the biological, and a sex/gender distinction is now only fitfully observed. KEY WORDS: sex; gender; gender role; feminism.

The inexorable rise of atmospheric CO2 concentrations, as observed at

the seemingly inexorable rise in

The inexorable rise of HIV/AIDS and the resurgence of many other infectious and non-infectious diseases across the globe has finally led to a recognition of the urgent need for a large

Two decades ago, Japan’s seemingly inexorable rise was stalled by a crisis whose contours bear an uncan-ny resemblance to the present global financial tur-moil. During the early 1990s, abundant liquidity – fu-

performance nearly matched by West Germany’s 1.6 percent. Whatever their other economic and social problems, the world’s industrial nations seemed to have left fears of mass unemployment far behind. Today, of course, unemployment is back with a vengeance. In Europe, in particular, the seemingly inexorable

We are facing a potential catastrophe of untreatable bacterial infections, driven by the inexorable rise of extensively drug-resistant bacteria, coupled with a market failure of pharmaceutical and biotech companies to deliver new therapeutic options. While global recognition of the problem

Great Britain has an envied record of improving road safety. For the first 50 years of the 20 th century, the inexorable rise in motor vehicle numbers and use was accompanied by a rising toll of death and injury. The three Es of engineering, enforcement and education, working together, have been

issue with the facts, logic, and policy conclusions in Piketty’s book, suggesting that the factors needed to support the inexorable rise in capital’s share and concentration are lacking and that among tax policy reforms aimed at dealing with economic inequality a wealth tax finds little support either