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From: SE Perrigo <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 29 June 2011 20:50
Subject: Re: Maternity leave and the REF
Like many of you I knew nothing about this -Am disgusted like you all
and am willing to sign a letter to the papers or to the equality
person Joni mentioned or anyone else.
Sarah
Quoting PROF J LOVENDUSKI <[log in to unmask]>:
> Yes I agree but not a good idea to just leave it to unions ... What about writing to the ref equality person mentioned on reg website with as many signatures as we can muster?
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> Professor Joni Lovenduski
> Sent from my iPad
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> On 28 Jun 2011, at 15:47, "Alison, Miranda" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> It may only be a proposal as yet but if HEFCE have proposed it then they clearly want to implement it. We just have to do whatever we can to stop that - and I agree with Haleh, surely we can argue that this is so discriminatory as to potentially be in breach of the law?
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>> I'm really glad someone is going to raise this with the UCU because after the email exchanges yesterday I suddenly thought surely this is actually a union issue? This affects all female academics who want to have children, not just those of us in Politics, so it seems to me this is an equality issue that our union should be fighting tooth and nail.
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>> Miranda
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