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GUEST POST: Notes from the classroom - Prevention work in the Highlands
Lindsay Linning is the campaigns and sexual violence prevention worker at Rape and Sexual Abuse Service Highland (RASASH). Through the national Rape Crisis prevention programme she leads workshops in senior schools in the Highlands on topics such as consent, pornography and gender. She also is coordinating the roll out of a new educational prevention resource for use with learning disabled young people called No More! and works with young feminist ambassadors in different parts of the Highlands. Here, she writes on her prevention work in the classroom.
The cards lie face up on the classroom tables and I wander the room while students in small groups confer with one another in hushed tones.
True or false? Women often lie about being raped.
True or false? If a woman is wearing revealing clothing and is raped, she’s partly to blame.
True or false? Sometimes girls say ‘no’ when they mean ‘yes’.Can the DWP's proposed changes to Universal Credit deliver for women?
Our Policy and Parliamentary Manager Eilidh Dickson looks at the proposed changes to the implementation of Universal Credit and the impact these changes are likely to have on women in receipt of the credit.
It used to be that “a week was a long time in politics”, but these days, major developments seem to occur daily. It's no surprise then that November 2018 already seems like a very long time ago. But that's how long Amber Rudd MP has been in post as Cabinet Secretary for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP).
For years, UK Government Ministers have been doggedly committed to the Universal Credit. They've pursued it without regard for the serious concerns from recipients and organisations like Engender. Expectations that a new Minister at the DWP would change track now were low, despite her assertion that she was ready to listen and "learn from errors".Census report: what does it mean for gender equality?
Today the Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee has released its Stage 1 report on the Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill[1].
Because, with the best will in the world, not everyone enjoys poring over committee reports, we’ve summarised some of the key points, and what they mean for women’s equality, here:
Proxy voting and making politics work for women
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In the week that a year-long proxy voting pilot scheme was launched in the House of Commons, our Policy and Parliamentary Manager Eilidh Dickson reflects on what the move means for women and considers whether it's time for Holyrood to do the same.
Just this week Tulip Siddiq became the first MP vote by proxy in the House of Commons while on maternity leave following the birth of her second child. So aware of the importance of the moment, her colleague Vicky Foxcroft wrote ‘Tulip’ across her hand to make extra sure she wouldn’t slip up and forget to cast her colleague’s vote.
Gender Matters and #GenerationEqual: Shifting the needle on equality for women and girls
Eighteen months after our Scotland's Feminist Future conference and the launch of our Gender Matters Roadmap, our Executive Director Emma Ritch considers positive progress alongside the recently released first set of recommendations from the First Minister's National Advisory Council on Women & Girls.
Amid the weekly grind of Scottish Parliament committee sessions, working group meetings, consultations launching and closing, and streams of papers flowing in and out of the office, it’s a challenge for a policy and advocacy organisation like Engender to keep our focus on what lies over the horizon: a better world for women and girls.
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Engender Briefing: Pension Credit Entitlement Changes
From 15 May 2019, new changes will be introduced which will require couples where one partner has reached state pension age and one has not (‘mixed age couples’) to claim universal credit (UC) instead of Pension Credit.
Engender Parliamentary Briefing: Condemnation of Misogyny, Racism, Harassment and Sexism
Engender welcomes this Scottish Parliament Debate on Condemnation of Misogyny, Racism, Harassment and Sexism and the opportunity to raise awareness of the ways in which women in Scotland’s inequality contributes to gender-based violence.
Gender Matters in Social Security: Individual Payments of Universal Credit
A paper calling on the Scottish Government to automatically split payments of Universal Credit between couples, once this power is devolved to the Scottish Parliament.
Gender Matters Manifesto: Twenty for 2016
This manifesto sets out measures that, with political will, can be taken over the next parliamentary term in pursuit of these goals.
Scottish NGO Briefing for UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women
Joint briefing paper for the UN Rapporteur on Violence Against Women.
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