{"id":804,"date":"2018-11-08T19:40:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T19:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=804"},"modified":"2018-11-22T20:10:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T20:10:34","slug":"withering-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/11\/08\/withering-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"WITHERING HEIGHTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

People in the Management School have been confused in recent weeks by signs visible around the fire doors outside Lecture Theatre 4 stating ‘CAUTION: Men Working Overhead’ – many staff on the top floor of LUMS are actually female! On closer inspection, it appears that the signs were put up by Bagnalls Painting & Decorating, who seem to operate a strict men-only policy for work that’s too high for the ladies to reach, even in heels. The subtext collective are left wondering whether University procurement regulations require external contractors to demonstrate equal opportunities practices, and whether we can invite external contractors to Gender Pay Gap meetings.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People in the Management School have been confused in recent weeks by signs visible around the fire doors outside Lecture Theatre 4 stating ‘CAUTION: Men Working Overhead’ – many staff on the top floor of LUMS are actually female! On … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[151,294,408],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gender-equality","tag-gender-pay-gap","tag-issue-182"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-cY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":775,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/10\/11\/doctorin-the-pay-gap\/","url_meta":{"origin":804,"position":0},"title":"DOCTORIN’ THE PAY GAP","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"October 11 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Following the recent rescue of her three new friends from the deadly vacuum of space, and her recollection of who she is, the Doctor is looking forward to new faces, new worlds and new times. Her trusty ship, the TARDIS, whirls through time and space, swerving exploding supernovae and sliding\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "news"","block_context":{"text":"news","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":713,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/09\/13\/watch-this-space-gender-pay-gap\/","url_meta":{"origin":804,"position":1},"title":"WATCH THIS SPACE: GENDER PAY GAP","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"September 13 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"We reported, in issue 176, that according to a league table Lancaster has the third worst gender pay gap amongst UK universities. 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