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It’s time for a new deal for care and carers
Today, the Political Studies Association Commission on Care has launched their report, Towards a New Deal For Care and Carers. Fawcett chair Belinda Phipps and our CEO Sam Smethers were the co-chairs of this commission and Fawcett contributed research to the report. The care crisis is deeply gendered, as the majority of the care workforce, unpaid carers, and those who are cared ...
This National Hate Crime Awareness Week, let’s make gendered abuse a hate crime
“Hooked me around the neck really tightly”, “Following me slowly in his car”, “Rubbed his bits against my back”, “I felt trapped”, “Are you legal yet?”, “He told me I ...
We must stand together to call for a commitment to women’s rights in the Brexit negotiations
As the fallout from the EU Referendum intensifies, we at Womankind are sure of one thing: we will stand in solidarity with women’s movements in the UK, in Europe and ...
‘There is no peace without women!’: Gender and the Colombian peace process
One of our goals of our #FaceHerFuture campaign, a coalition of women's and equalities organisations who are working to make sure women's issues are at the heart of the Brexit negotiations, is to make ...
Working with young people towards a future without hate crime and misogyny
The Diana Award is proud to support the Fawcett Society’s #FaceHerFuture campaign. In these uncertain times it is important for us to come together to stand up against all forms ...
Time to Celebrate the Foremother of Feminism – Mary Wollstonecraft
“JUSTICE for one half of the human race!” went the battle cry of one of history’s unsung greats. Mary Wollstonecraft died on 10th September in 1797, and she remains a one-off. ...
Working Families is pleased to support #FaceHerFuture – it’s vital that, post-Brexit, there is no weakening of women’s rights or of the continued progress towards equality for women.Working Families provides ...
Fighting for a future free from hate crime for Muslim women
Since Tell MAMA was founded in 2011, it has become clear, through the numbers of people reporting their experiences of anti-Muslim abuse to us, that visible Muslim women are most ...
Defending the human rights of childbearing women from a turbulent future
In the volatile political, economic and social climate of post-referendum UK, many of us are anxious and uncertain about the future. Women across their reproductive lives face the same challenges ...
Women and girls at risk must be counted in plans for the UK’s future
The most vulnerable women and girls face uncertain futures at the best of times. With childhoods marked by trauma, poverty, and insecurity, they grow up to struggle with mental illness, ...
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