Document library

Closing the Gap - does transparency hold the key to unlocking pay equality?
Nearly forty years on from the introduction of the Equal Pay Act, the pay gap is a persistent thorn in the side of workplace equality. This Gender Equality Forum thinkpiece asks: could transparency hold the key to unlocking pay equality?

Corporate Sexism: The sex industry's infiltration of the modern workplace
Fawcett's report finds that the use of lap dancing clubs and display of pornography in a work context is a major new threat to women's equality at work.

The Equality Bill: Defining a new approach or business as usual?
A Fawcett Society think piece for the gender equality forum, looking at the Equality Bill and whether it will succeed in its aim to build a fairer society for the future.

Not having it all: How motherhood reduces women's pay and employment prospects. July 2009
A report by Fawcett that calculates the impact that becoming a mum has on a woman's earnings and looks at new policy responses to reduce the impact of motherhood on women's pay and employment prospects.

Are women bearing the burden of the recession? A Fawcett Society report. March 2009
A Fawcett report which documents how women have entered this recession on an unequal economic footing and sets out a five-point plan for economic recovery that would protect women's rights.

Just Below the Surface: gender stereotyping, the silent barrier to equality in the modern workplace? January 2009
A Fawcett Society think piece for the gender equality forum, looking at gender stereotyping as an insidious barrier to equality in the modern workplace.

Letter to James Purnell: response to Welfare Reforms green paper. November 2008
A letter from Fawcett to Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell on the Welfare Reforms green paper.

Breaking the Mould for Women Leaders - could boardroom quotas hold the key? October 2008
A think piece for the Gender Equality Forum, looking at whether quotas are the answer to increasing women's representation in leadership roles.

A Fawcett Society briefing on Just below the surface. October 2008
A briefing by Fawcett on Just below the surface - an initiative of Fawcett's Sexism and the City campaign to tackle sexism at work.

A Fawcett Society briefing: lap dancing club licensing, September 2008
Fawcett are calling for lap dancing clubs to be licensed as sex encounter establishments. This briefing looks at the current situation, the problem and the solution.

Keeping Mum: campaign booklet. May 2008
Campaign booklet for Keeping Mum, Fawcett's campaign to end mother and child poverty. Includes facts, case studies, and what Fawcett is calling for. Includes website briefing.

Sexism and the city: campaign manifesto. April 2008
Campaign manifesto for Fawcett's campaign Sexism and the City, which shines a spotlight on one 'square mile' of the United Kingdom to expose the reality of women's lives in workplaces up and down the country.

Women and the future workplace: a blueprint for change. April 2008
A Fawcett Society think piece for the launch of the Gender Equality Forum, looking at a workplace fit for women, key drivers of future change and enablers and inhibitors. By Dr Katherine Rake.

Women in the media. December 2007
A Fawcett review of women in the media in the UK, including figures on editors and lobby journalists in key daily and Sunday newspapers and editors and presenters of broadcast news.

Women's financial assets and debts. November 2007
A Fawcett Society report on women's financial assets and debts by Jenny Westaway and Stephen McKay. Full report (80 pages) and executive summary.

A Fawcett Society briefing on women and money. November 2007
A briefing from Fawcett on women and money, including facts and figures and where to get more info on savings, pensions and debts.

A Fawcett Society/UNISON briefing on equal pay. October 2007
A briefing on pay inequality, including frequently asked questions and their answers, case studies and recommended measures for prevention and cure, by Fawcett and UNISON.

Fawcett Society briefing on women and debt. August 2007
A briefing from Fawcett on women and debt, focusing on unsecured credit such as credit cards, personal loans and mail order debts.

Saving Lives: A Fawcett Society briefing on women's lifetime savings patterns. June 2007
A briefing by Fawcett on women's savings and debts, looking at the gender savings gap and its causes, lifetime transitions, having children, divorce and lone parenthood, carers and policy challenges.

Who Benefits?: A gender analysis of the UK benefits and tax credits system
A Fawcett Society report on UK benefits and the tax credits system, written by Kate Bellamy, Fran Bennett and Jane Millar.

Money Money Money: Is it still a rich man's world? March 2005
An audit of women's economic welfare in Britain today by Dr Katherine Rake and Kate Bellamy. Full report (67 pages) and executive summary.

Gender and poverty. November 2003
A Fawcett Society report on Gender and Poverty by Gemma Rosenblatt and Katherine Rake, looking at reasons for poverty and hidden poverty, the impact of poverty and social exclusion, routes into and out of poverty and Government policy.

Poverty pathways: ethnic minority women's livelihoods. July 2009
This report looks at why ethnic minority women as a group experience considerably higher rates of poverty than White women in the UK.

Lifts and Ladders: resolving ethnic minority women's exclusion from power. June 2009
A report on why ethnic minority women are excluded from power in the UK, as part of Fawcett's Seeing Double campaign on ethnic minority women.

Harnessing the power of difference: race, gender and the future workplace. June 2008
A Fawcett think piece for the Gender Equality Forum, showing that any organisation aiming to lead in its field will only succeed where it is able to harness the transformative power of 'difference'.

Ethnic Minority Women: Routes to Power. May 2008
Report on ethnic minority and routes to positions of power, including key facts, challenges, pathways to success, value women bring to their roles, lessons, and recommendations for increasing representation.

A Fawcett Society briefing on ethnic minority women, poverty and inequality. April 2008
A briefing by Fawcett on ethnic minority women, poverty and inequality, including issues around employment, debt, motherhood, and pensions.

Seeing Double: race and gender in ethnic minority women's lives. March 2008
A collection of essays on the needs of ethnic minority women, edited by zohra moosa. Includes an exclusive interview with Dawn Butler MP on her experiences as one of only two black women MPs in Parliament.

The veil, feminism and Muslim women. December 2006
A Fawcett report following a debate on ensuring that the women's rights agenda reflects the needs of Muslim women.

Black and Minority Ethnic Women in the UK. February 2005
A Fawcett report on BME women in the UK, looking at background, employment and financial security, representation and participation in public life, experience and of the criminal justice system.

Engendering Justice - from policy to practice. May 2009
The final report of Fawcett's Commission on Women and the Criminal Justice system, looking at practices and attitudes towards women across the criminal justice system.

Regional rape conviction map. July 2008
In 2008, Fawcett obtained figures from Government which revealed huge deficiencies in police responses to rape. This map shows regional conviction rates across England and Wales.

Regional rape conviction rates in England and Wales 2004-6. July 2008
Fawcett-compiled figures comparing rape conviction rates in 2004 and 2006 across England and Wales by Police force area.

Not either/or but both/and: Why we need Rape Crisis Centres and Sexual Assault Referral Centres
A briefing published by End Violence Against Women, Rape Crisis (England & Wales), the Child & Woman Abuse Studies Unit and Fawcett.

Justice for rape victims: take action with Fawcett
Campaign leaflet for Fawcett's Justice for rape victims campaign, including the problems, what Fawcett is calling for, and myths and facts.

Fawcett Society briefing on rape. November 2007
A briefing by Fawcett on rape, including statistics, incidence, perpetrators, reporting, law in the UK, conviction, support services, public attitudes and international context.

Fawcett Society briefing: Women and the criminal justice system
A briefing from Fawcett on women and the criminal justice system, including facts on women offenders, facts on women victims and facts on female staff in the criminal justice system.

A Fawcett Society briefing on prostitution. September 2007
A briefing by Fawcett on prostitution, including routes into prostitution, violence, the law, current practice and alternative policies.

Women and Justice: Third annual review. July 2007
The third annual review of Fawcett's Commission on women and the criminal justice system, reviewing existing recommendations, introducing new recommendations and looking at the gender equality duty.

An End Violence Against Women campaign briefing on International Women's Day. March 2007
A briefing from Fawcett and the End Violence Against Women coalition for an International Women’s Day debate on 8th March 2007.

Provision for women offenders in the community. July 2007
A report by Loraine Gelsthorpe, Gilly Sharpe and Jenny Roberts, published by the Fawcett Society, on women offenders in the community. Full report (107 pages) and executive summary.

Making the Grade? The Second annual independent analysis of Government initiatives on violence against women. November 2006
A report by the End Violence Against Women campaign on violence against women, including statistics and recommendations.

A Fawcett Society briefing on abortion. October 2006
A Fawcett Society briefing on abortion including facts and statistics, recent debates and sources of further information.

Doing your duty: Guide to the gender equality duty. July 2006
A Fawcett Society guide to the gender equality duty for criminal justice agencies working with adult women accused or convicted of offences in England and Wales.

Understanding your duty: Report on the gender equality duty and criminal justice system. July 2006
A Fawcett report on the gender equality duty and the criminal justice system by Holly Dustin, looking at the opportunities the gender equality duty presents

Fawcett Society and Women in Prison briefing for a House of Lords debate on the case for a Women's Justice Board. June 2006
A briefing by Fawcett and Women in Prison for a House of Lords debate on the case for a Women’s Justice Board.

Justice and Equality: the Second Annual Review of the Commission on Women and the Criminal Justice System, March 2006
Second annual review of the Fawcett Society's Commission on Women and the Criminal Justice System.

Good practice in meeting the needs of ethnic minority women offenders and those at risk of offending. January 2006
A Fawcett Society paper providing information on how services can improve their engagement with ethnic minority women offenders and those at risk of offending.

A Fawcett Society factsheet: Family courts. August 2005
This factsheet by Fawcett on family courts outlines their background, current legal framework, criticisms of system and context, and Government proposals.

Commission on women and the criminal justice system: one year on report. March 2005
A report of the Fawcett Society's Commission on Women and the Criminal Justice system, written one year after the Commission was established.

When victims become offenders: in search of coherence in policy and practice. December 2004
A report by Dr Judith Rumgay on victimisation and offending, commissioned by Fawcett's Gender and Justice Policy Network.

Report on women working in the criminal justice system. March 2004
An interim report by the Fawcett Society's Commission on Women and the Criminal Justice system on women working in the criminal justice system.

Report on women and offending, November 2003
An interim report by the Fawcett Society's Commission on Women and the Criminal Justice System on Women and Offending.

Report on victims and witnesses. July 2003
An interim report by the Fawcett Society's Commission on Women and the Criminal Justice system on victims and witnesses.

Active Citizenship: Girls shout out! Political outsiders: we care, but will we vote?
A research report by Girlguiding UK into levels of involvement in and attitudes towards active citizenship amongst girls in guiding.

Women's votes: myths and reality. November 2007
A memorandum prepared by Julia Clark and Roger Mortimore from Ipsos MORI and Fawcett's director Dr Katherine Rake on political attitudes in Britain, drivers of voting and myth busting.

Fawcett Society briefing on women's representation in British politics. June 2006
A briefing from Fawcett on women's representation in British politics, including numbers of Labour, Conservative and Lib Dem women MPs.

Ken Livingstone's response to the Fawcett Society for the May 2008 elections. April 2008
femocracy, Fawcett's campaign on ethnic minority women and politics, put questions to mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone in advance of the May 2008 elections.

Briefing by Fawcett/Ipsos MORI on women's votes. September 2006
A Fawcett/Ipsos MORI briefing on women's votes, looking at key points for political parties, women's political influence and priorities, historical trends in women's voting, voting intentions, satisfaction with Government delivery and leaders.

A Fawcett Society briefing on women and politics. June 2006
A briefing from Fawcett on women and politics, including information on positive action, statistics, women in politics worldwide and electoral reform.

Future of Feminism report
A report on the Future of Feminism, a series of four seminars run by Fawcett in conjunction with Harriet Harman QC MP.

Gender equality in the 21st century: modernising the legislation. April 2006
A Fawcett Society report on modernising legislation by Kate Bellamy and Sophie Cameron, looking at equal pay, rights and protection, employer responsibility and support, remedies and enforcement and more.

Make some noise on May 4th. April 2006
A Fawcett Society guide to the local elections on 4th May 2006, explaining what local councillors do, the role of women in local politics, why it's so important to vote at the local elections and other ways to have your say in local decisions.

Women in politics - international comparisons. December 2005
A Fawcett factsheet on the number of women representatives in politics in a global context.

Are we there yet? 30 years of closing the gap between women and men. November 2005
A Fawcett Society review of the 30 years since new laws were introduced in the UK aimed at creating equality for women. Includes a timeline. Full report (25 pages) and executive summary.

Representation and affirmative action. November 2005
A report by Natalie Hanman on increasing women in politics and what works worldwide, including why wome's representation matters, positive action and the international perspective.

Make your mark, use your vote: Every woman's guide to the election. April 2005
A Fawcett Society guide to the election, highlighting issues around pay, childcare, flexible working, pensions, caring, justice, and more.

Something for the ladies - Are Politicians Stereotyping Women Voters In 2005? April 2005
A report by Fawcett on policies presented by each party at the 2005 general election, compared to Fawcett's own view on what needs to be done.

Manifesto for Equality. September 2004
A Manifesto for Equality by Fawcett, setting out what is needed to meet women's needs, around issues of employmenet and pay, poverty and financial independence, pensions, parents and carers, childcare, criminal justice and politics.

Women and Candidate Selection in British Political Parties. 2002
A report by Laura Shepherd-Robinson and Joni Lovenduski for Fawcett on candidate selection in British political parties, looking at selection processes and attitudes to procedures.