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exploration of the way a focus on individual behaviour change can reinforce gender inequality . Find out more about the climate strike here: https://climatestrike.scot/ Posted on September 19 2019 at 14:06 Share this post on …

In the lived experience focus groups that we’ve held so far, women have told us that the risks to their careers and wellbeing from reporting harassment tend to far outweigh any potential benefits of doing so. Victim-survivors of

Devolution Committee’s focus on the contents of the Scotland Bill (the Bill), and the opportunity to submit our views. Engender Submission to the Smith Commission Engender's submission to the Smith Commission on additional powers for

new version is exclusively focused on the views of civil society. The project initially brought together representatives from across the third sector on the island of Ireland to look at a new framework for cross border working. While Brexit has

Engender’s Policy and Parliamentary Manager, Eilidh Dickson, has been a member of the Independent Working Group on Misogyny chaired by Baroness Helena Kennedy. Here she reflects on the final report released today

Initially, I had hoped to focus specifically on depictions of sexuality and motherhood in order to link more directly with Engender’s Disabled Women: Our Bodies, Our Rights project . However, given the time limitations of my project, the

With everything else happening at the moment, you might be forgiven if the Programme for Government has slipped your mind. But as the main document which sets out the actions the Scottish Government will take, and the legislative programme for the

Scotland, with a particular focus on protected characteristics. However the EBS falls far short of a comprehensive gender budget analysis, or Gender Budgeting , a process of mainstreaming gender into the spending decisions themselves at all levels

makers who prefer to focus on headline-grabbing stories and shiny new construction projects. Actually, we know that investing in care is one of the best ways to support economic recovery – spending just 1% of UK GDP in the care sector

Women who took part in our focus groups told us: “Shocking. Absolutely shocking. What does £10 a week buy you? Not a lot. And for caring for two people. Insulting, actually.” “It feels as if the government think