Wera Hobhouse MP: International Women’s Day 2024 might be behind us, but we should not put women’s rights in the rear-view mirror
The significance of achieving a 50:50 Parliament is not simply about numbers.
The significance of achieving a 50:50 Parliament is not simply about numbers.
At the current rate of progress, it will take 43 years to close the gender pay gap in Britain.
One in 10 women in their 30s – more than 450,000 women – are out of the labour market because of caring responsibilities – compared to just one in 100 men in their 30s.
Rape in war is an act of violence that can be as destructive as bullets and bombs, yet goes unreported, is under prosecuted, and where the root causes remain unchallenged.
‘We call on government to match its rhetoric on ending VAWG with actions that support all women’s rights – including migrant women, and black and minoritised women.’
Campaigners are calling for the government to protect lifesaving women’s domestic abuse services.
From the gender pay gap to the ‘pink tax’, we need bold policies to tackle inequality, writes the Lib Dems’ Lorely Burt.
Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn has voiced his support for striking cinema workers as the longest-running dispute in history of British cinema held a special day of action on International Women’s Day (IWD).
Over 120 women incarcerated in the Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre are on hunger strike over the conditions of their detention. One of them left the following message.
The women’s strike is a devastatingly simple concept. And a vital one, too.