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2018
‘This report clearly shows we risk turning the clock back on gender equality as a result of Brexit’.
The first independent report to look at the economic impact of Brexit on women was published by the Women’s Budget Group and the Fawcett Society earlier this week.
The report, ‘Exploring the economic impact of Brexit on women’, shows the economic impact of Brexit will hit women hard, leading to lost jobs, cuts to services and a squeeze on family budgets.
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Mar
2018
Outlining action in three areas to turn the tables in British workplaces.Corrosive working cultures have silenced the voices of victims and normalised sexual harassment, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said as it published a set of recommendations aiming to better protect people26
Mar
2018
60 per cent of respondents were aware of a gender pay gap where they worked.The Law Society has released its findings from the largest international survey of women in the law after a survey of 7,781 people (5,758 women, 554 men and 1,469 unknown or other) which aimed to shed light on current21
Mar
2018
The normalisation of objectification and exploitation of women still persists…The London Festival of Architecture has launched a major new campaign that tackles discriminatory behaviour in the built environment and encourages industry leaders to commit to positive change.The campaign calls on16
Mar
2018
Asking questions under four main themes – with the central aim prevention.The Home Secretary has unveiled proposals for a landmark Domestic Abuse Bill – and invited the public to contribute views on how such a Bill should look.In February 2017, the Prime Minister announced a new ‘programme of15
Mar
2018
‘It is unacceptable that successive governments have failed to protect the public from poisonous air’The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and the Environmental Audit, Health and Social Care and Transport Committees have published a joint report after an unprecedented four-way12
Mar
2018
This kind of behaviour has real world consequences.By WRDA CommunicationsBelfast has a problem with Rape Culture.Eating lunch, buying clothes or even just walking down the street, women in this city are met with a barrage of misogynistic material.Violence against women is made light of07
Mar
2018
‘…As she moved on, he heard glass shatter…’A portrait in London’s National Portrait Gallery that was slashed with a butcher’s cleaver by a suffragette has been put back on display in the gallery for the first time in over twenty years.And a photograph showing the damage has been included in a05
Mar
2018
Parliament ‘should set a positive example as a place of work with the highest standards of behaviour’.The Scottish Parliament has published the results of a confidential survey which assessed the extent to which sexual harassment and sexist behaviour is present in Holyrood and in MSPs’ local01
Mar
2018
Labour signatories are urging garment brands to sign up to the 2018 Accord.With less than 100 days until the current Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety, signed in 2013, expires, garment companies are being urged to continue their involvement and create a safe and sustainable garment26
Feb
2018
Join forces with the thousands of women born in the 1950s living in your constituency!1950’s women had their state pensions deferred twice, by stealth, campaigners point out, for the meanest state pension in Europe – under the false premise of equality and longevity.The work and pensions23
Feb
2018
One third of children with a working single parent today live in poverty.Gingerbread, a national charity working with single parent families, has released a report profiling single parents today, to see how life has changed for the one in four families headed by a single parent in the27
Mar
2018
Labour’s international aid plan would reduce inequality and challenge patriarchy.The Labour Party has announced its plan for action on international development in a new policy paper, ‘A World For The Many, Not The Few’.Writing in Labour List, Kate Osamor MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of23
Mar
2018
Women suffer a huge pay penalty over the course of their lives.A new analysis of official statistics published by the TUC this week shows that the gender pay gap is at its widest when a woman hits 50, when the average woman working full-time will earn £8,421 a year less than the average20
Mar
2018
‘The twisted logic of blaming women and girls for the violence and abuse they experience has to end’. On 2 March, 2018, the letter below was circulated through private emails and messages to women working within the aid sector throughout the world.The letter was drafted by Sarah Martin16
Mar
2018
The reality of not being able to afford sanitary products can have serious consequences.Two fifths of girls in the UK have had to rely on using toilet roll at some point to manage their period because they have struggled to afford sanitary products, a survey by Plan International UK has13
Mar
2018
Domestic abuse is not an isolated offence, it is a repeated pattern of behaviour.A new domestic abuse sentencing guideline has been published, giving courts up-to-date guidance that emphasises the seriousness of this kind of offending.The guideline, published by the Sentencing Council09
Mar
2018
Changes make it easier for survivors of domestic violence to register to vote anonymously The Houses of Parliament have passed the government’s proposals for changes to anonymous voter registration.The changes will make it easier for an estimated 12,000 survivors of domestic abuse living in06
Mar
2018
“With never to be forgotten gratitude for helpful sympathy in my life’s greatest trial.”The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has launched a new website that uses personal scrapbooks, diaries and photograph albums to bring to life the experiences of wartime nurses.More than 15,000 nurses served05
Mar
2018
Challenge the assumption that women’s work should be performed for free and always with a smile.On 8 March women around the world are going on strike for the day; this is a call to action for women in the UK to join them.The Women’s Strike is an international strike being planned and28
Feb
2018
‘Why are you not making drama by female writers?’In an open letter to TV drama commissioners, 76 female writers have accused UK drama bosses of failing to give them opportunities to ‘graduate’ from soaps to flagship primetime shows.Their work ranges from EastEnders and Casualty to Midsomer23
Feb
2018
Prime Minister announced plans for a major new programme of work.Domestic abuse is one of the most pernicious and pervasive forces in the UK today. And on average, two women each week in the UK are killed by a partner or former partner.Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans to ‘transform the way23
Feb
2018
250 years of women cartoon and comic artists in Britain.Based on an exhibition of the same name held at the Cartoon Museum in 2017, a book with the title The Inking Woman, edited by Nicola Streeten and Cath Tate, is due for publication in March.For many years, the world of cartoons and comics26
Mar
2018
Nearly 90 per cent of people out of paid work to care for the home or family are women.The Minister for Women and Equalities, Amber Rudd, has announced a £1.5 million fund to support people back into work after time out caring.The fund, which was launched earlier this month, offers grants to22
Mar
2018
‘The policy itself was indefensible’.The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has published its report into the Child Migration Programmes case study.Over a period of many years before and after the Second World War, successive United Kingdom governments allowed children to be19
Mar
2018
If men did not buy sex, there would be no prostitution, child sexual exploitation or sex trafficking.by Nordic Model Now!The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, unveiled his new violence against women and girls (VAWG) strategy recently.While we welcome some of its provisions, we are dismayed by16
Mar
2018
‘…we were disappointed that so many women have experienced sexism’.Churches are being urged to take steps to make their congregations safe spaces in which women can flourish, after new research released on International Women’s Day revealed that 62 per cent of women have experienced sexism in13
Mar
2018
How long are we going to keep quiet while we witness this? I refuse to.This is the English version of an open letter sent to the leadership of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), extended to the leaderships of the Brazilian Olympic Committee (BOC), the International Federation of07
Mar
2018
Apprentices are exploited by being given the same work as non- apprentice workers.Just one in five MPs think the apprentice minimum wage is enough to live on, a Young Women’s Trust survey has shownLess than half (45 per cent) of the MPs questioned in a ComRes survey for National06
Mar
2018
“Nothing has changed … everyone promises, it’s delivering that counts.”On 1 February 2018 the inquest into the self-inflicted death of 21 year-old Emily Hartley at HMP New Hall in 2016 concluded.She was the youngest of 22 women to die in a women’s prison that year; 2016 saw the highest annual02
Mar
2018
Rethinking the way we deal with sexual harassment in the entertainment industryThe actors’ union Equity has published its report on sexual harassment in the entertainment industry and launched a ‘Safe Space’ campaign.In the report, ‘Agenda for Change: Equity’s report on sexual harassment’27
Feb
2018
Denial of abortion and criminalisation of abortion ‘puts women in horrific situations’.In a strongly-worded report published last week, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) said thousands of women and girls in Northern Ireland are subjected to grave and23
Feb
2018
From detained voicesInside Yarls Wood, people are on hunger strike – they won’t go to the dining room to eat for 3 days.They detain people who have appeal rights, who are reporting every month. Why would they detained people who comply with their rules to go and sign? Especially those who21
Feb
2018
A duty to establish structures with no legal duty to operate within them would create no more than a bureaucratic fiction.The Supreme Court has today ruled that the Metropolitan Police (the Met) did breach the human rights of John Worboys’ victims by failing to properly investigate reports of