Sarama Awate ****Vital updates to this page coming soon! Look out for ‘Fair Deal for Women Report – Part 3: Women Speak Out on Media, Attitudes, Power and Human Rights’**** If you think that these issues we have highlighted on this website are unfair, you may want to question them. However, asking questions is becoming more difficult. There are five … Read more
****Vital updates to this page coming soon! Look out for ‘Fair Deal for Women Report – Part 3: Women Speak Out on Media, Attitudes, Power and Human Rights’**** When there are decisions being made, and wherever power is wielded, women do not seem to be present. Women are under-represented in all aspects of power and decision … Read more
****Vital updates to this page coming soon! Look out for ‘Fair Deal for Women Report – Part 3: Women Speak Out on Media, Attitudes, Power and Human Rights’**** When you walk into a news agents, what do you see? News articles about men, written by men. Half naked women. Gossip columns about how much weight or … Read more
****Vital updates to this page coming soon! Look out for ‘Fair Deal for Women Report – Part 2: Women Speak Out on Safety Justice and support and Women’s Health’**** We know that women live longer lives, and the perception seems to be that women are healthier precisely because they live longer. However, research shows that … Read more
****Vital updates to this page coming soon! Look out for ‘Fair Deal for Women Report – Part 2: Women Speak Out on Safety Justice and support and Women’s Health’**** Levels of violence against women and girls remain extremely high with 44% of women experiencing male violence in their lifetime. 1.2 million women experience domestic violence … Read more
****Vital updates to this page coming soon! In the mean time, view our new report here http://womenspeakout.wrc.org.uk/report/ ‘**** Even though girls outperform boys at school, women typically earn less and work in lower paid jobs, part-time jobs, and insecure jobs. Why is this the case? discrimination during the recruitment process discrimination during promotion and wage reviews stereotyping into … Read more
****Vital updates to this page coming soon! In the mean time, view our new report here http://womenspeakout.wrc.org.uk/report/ ‘**** At the moment economic, tax, and spending policies benefit men more than women. How? When a Government needs to pay off a deficit, there are two options: Increase taxes Reduce public spending In recent years public spending has been … Read more
The Women’s Resource Centre as well as A Fair Deal for Women’s brilliant partners EVAW Coalition, Rights of Women, Fawcett Society, Imkaan and Southall Black Sisters, among others wrote a letter to the Guardian on the CPS report into violence against women and girls. They wrote that a failure to recognise the gendered nature of these crimes, and “failure to … Read more
by Giulia Simi* The future of the world is open: it lies in starting along the path from the beginning again with woman as a subject. Carla Lonzi, Let’s spit on Hegel, 1970. Guerrilla Girls, “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met.Museum?”, 1989. www.guerrillagirls.com It was 1971 when the art historian Linda … Read more
A Fair Deal for Women, a coalition of women’s organisations calls on new PM to address key areas affecting women. There are now more women in parliament than ever before, but what does the future hold for us under the new Conservative government? This campaign group has broken down the issues which need to be … Read more