How the Women’s Equality Party would deliver pay equality
November 14 2019 is Equal Pay Day. From this date women in the UK are effectively working 'for free' compared to men until the end of the year, based on…
Why do we celebrate International Women’s Day?
Photo: Sisters Uncut Alys Mumford is the Co-convenor of the Edinburgh Green Party and a list candidate for the Lothian region. She works at Engender, Scotland's feminist membership organisation. This…
In pictures: Sisters Uncut occupies London Councils Building
@SistersUncut @Rebecca_Omonira #maydaysisters — Khadra (@khadraaden1) May 4, 2015 All-women activist group Sisters Uncut took to the streets to protest cuts to domestic violence services. The group took direct action…
5 Reasons Housing is a Feminist Issue #LivingRent
Today is International Women’s Day, an important time for highlighting campaigns which promote gender equality. The struggle for better housing has historically been lead by women, with Mary Barbour and…
Why is it always women who are accused of careerism?
I am not going to name names, that wouldn't be fair. But I am fed up with people accusing prominent female activists of being careerists. It might just be that…
Women Of The Year 2011 (No Pandas)
As Christmas day passes and the population spends a few days in the doldrums waiting for New Year’s Eve, journalists across the land begin to hastily gather information and evidence…
Women’s Work? Women’s strike!
A brief reflection on the N30 strike One of the differences between the 30th November strike and most other industrial actions was the highly visible presence of women on the…
250,000 people on benefits to lose access to free education.
If you want to be educated don't be poor, don't be from an ethnic minority, don't be disabled and don't be a woman. That's essentially the message from new research…
Feminine or Feminist?
In the beginning there was man and there was man’s wife (woman). And man was brave and strong and clever, and man’s wife was weak and emotional, and cared for…
Women’s Budget protest – pictures
20 women blockaded the main exits from Downing Street this morning, in an attempt to stop George Osborne delivering a Budget that would hammer women. The protestors were in place…