Sarama Awate For the first time in anticipation of an election, 11 women’s organisations have come together to create a campaign asking politicians to do something about the gap between men and women. Each of the partner organisations is a leader in their field having become experts through years of experience. Click through below to visit their … 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’**** 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