Equality & Human Rights

****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

Power & decision making

****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

Attitudes, media, education & culture

****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

Health

****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

Safety, support and justice

****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

Work & family life

****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

Economy

****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

Gender is all too relevant in violence statistics

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

Inequality in the art world

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