Fawcett Society
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The Fawcett Society is the UK's leading charity campaigning for gender equality and women's rights. They campaign on women's representation in politics and public life.
Fawcett Society
2w ago
Join Fawcett and Black Equity Organisation for our Public Harms report launch: How do public services harm Black women and how do we reform them? On Wednesday 12th June at Black Cultural Archives. This partnership report draws out the similar ways that women, in particular Black women and girls are harmed, across policing, education, and mental health services. We connect individual harmful incidents with the broader systemic issues of racism and sexism within these institutions. The report will feed into our wider public harms project which seeks to re-imagine anti-racist and feminist pu ..read more
Fawcett Society
3w ago
29 April 2024 Data from Fawcett and Democracy Club shows that 34% of local election candidates are women. Even more starkly, just 26% of police and crime commissioner candidates and 27% of mayoral candidates are women. Ahead of the local elections on 2nd May 2024, new data from the Fawcett Society and Democracy club shows that just 34% of candidates are women. This reflects a worrying lack of progress since we last released these figures in 2021, when 33% of candidates who stood were women, and no progress following our last analysis of women’s representation on Councils which found that 36% o ..read more
Fawcett Society
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15th April 2024 Our childcare system requires urgent transformation. Without a functioning and fair Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) system, women are locked out of the workforce and children in the least well-off families aren't supported to thrive. It's time to rebuild childcare. This report is part two in a two-part project, supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, that looks in-depth at ECEC provision in five countries that have recently, or are currently undergoing government-led transformation: Australia, Canada, Estonia, France and Ireland, and shows how their learnin ..read more
Fawcett Society
2M ago
15 March 2024 Silver Moon was a legendary feminist bookshop founded in London in the 1980s. By the time it shuttered its Charing Cross Road location, the store had become Europe's biggest women's bookshop and hosted literary stars such as Maya Angelou, Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood. One of the co-founders, Jane Cholmeley, has written the store's history, and here, longstanding Fawcett member and author of Stand We At Last, Zoe Fairbairns reviews A Bookshop of One's Own: How a group of women set out to change the world. When I got to the bit in A Bookshop of One’s Own where it says ‘t ..read more