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title: "Ann Oakley"
date: "2011-05-10T00:00:00+01:00"
modified: "2011-05-10T00:00:00+01:00"
url: "https://newhumanist.org.uk/contributors/ann-oakley/"
post_id: 3707
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# Ann Oakley

Ann Oakley is a writer and a sociologist, best-known for her work on sex and gender, housework, childbirth and feminist social science, and more recently for her work on evidence-based public policy and methodologies of research and evaluation. Her book [A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Critical-Woman-Barbara-Wootton-Twentieth/dp/1849664684) is published by Bloomsbury Academic.