Our final Equal Play webinar: Child's Play: Fun beyond stereotypes took place online on Tuesday 28 November. Watch below  Vimeo Video https://www.vimeo.com/889161390 How do stereotypes impact Children's ability to play and have fun in the way they want to? With an expert panel of speakers, Child's Play will explore issues relating to gender and racial stereotypes in sports, toys and books. Together we will look at what equal play looks like in practice, with tops tips, advice and lived experience to help practitioners and parents best support children to enjoy and embrace play, beyond the ..read more

The Fawcett team is based in Shoreditch in East London, and is supported by a team of volunteers and temporary staff. We have a hybrid model of working, with a mix of home and in office working.  If you are a journalist or have an urgent media inquiry, please contact Fresh Communication on 0117 369 0025, 07769 66 66 27 or 07801 79987. You can also email press.office@fawcettsociety.org.uk Jemima Olchawski, CEO Jemima is the CEO of the Fawcett Society. She is a social policy expert with 15 years' experience working on issues around social justice and women’s rights ..read more

There's no question that women's work is worth the same as men's. But we still haven't closed the gender pay gap. Equal Pay Day, the day of the year when women stop earning relative to men due to the gender pay gap, is Fawcett's flagship campaign.  There are so many factors at play when it comes to the gender pay gap. Each year on Equal Pay Day, Fawcett's campaigning has focused on a different contributing factor to the gap, producing research and resources to help close it once and for all. Explore what causes the gender pay gap, and our calls for change over years of research and campai ..read more

Become a member today and stand in solidarity with the feminist community. Make a difference to women and girls everywhere. We've come a long way in 150 years, but we still have a long way to go. From securing the vote for women, to defending against misogyny in the press, the Fawcett Society has played a pivotal role in the advancement of women's rights and gender equality throughout the last 150 years. We fight for equality at the very heart of our society, influencing the biggest decisions impacting women's rights today. Our members forge the way. Through their commitment and passion they f ..read more

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Watch our in- person System Update: Addressing the Gender Gap in Tech report launch, in partnership with VMO2. Vimeo Video https://www.vimeo.com/884384959 Rewatch our virtual panel discussion Women's Experience of Policing: Where do we go next? Vimeo Video https://www.vimeo.com/827327964 Rewatch our virtual panel discussion Boys Online: Parenting Against Internet Misogyny Replay events from Corona Conversations: Watch videos from Equal Pay Day: Watch interview run by Fawcett Society: Replay events from Fawcett Society's Conferences ..read more

1 November 2023  Equal Pay Day 2023 will be 22nd November. Today, the Fawcett Society, the UK's leading membership charity campaigning for gender equality and women’s rights at work, at home and in public life, can confirm that Equal Pay Day 2023 will fall on 22nd November. Equal Pay Day is a national campaign led by the Fawcett Society in the UK. It marks the day in the year when, based on the gender pay gap, women overall in the UK stop being paid compared to men. The gender pay gap is the difference between the average pay of men and women within a pa ..read more

14th November 2023  I think one of the biggest clichés of aspirational parenting is wooden toys. That promise you make yourself that your kids will only play with beautiful wooden toys, that in your house there will only be super educational games and quality things. You’re going to go back to good and simple. Chris and I were convinced that we wouldn’t buy plastic or toys with noises, and to be completely fair we haven’t done it much … but we also haven’t bought many of the good ones. We are, as my mum judgmentally calls us, ‘cheap parents’. I like to say that we are environmentally cons ..read more