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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

in terms of our access to public places and services, but still massively under-represented within contemporary UK media and culture. So what does this mean and why does it matter? What it means is that women with disabilities remain largely

importantly, it challenges public perceptions and assumptions of what people with disabilities are capable of (Ellis, 2015). However, it also constructs its own very particular aesthetic of ‘acceptable’ disability (Garland-Thomson,

woman” in a paid public role as the lead subject of the story[2] . The UK press fairs somewhat better, recording 62 articles in the last year that address issues such as: disability and abortion ; all-women shortlists [3]

targets for delivery of key public services that are vital for women's equality, such as childcare and social care. There's a more detailed briefing about the Gender Equality Bill here . You can help to promote our call by sharing

on by recent changes to public spending. What happens at Westminster hugely affects us all. We'd like your support in asking candidates how they will protect and support women and children from discrimination, poverty and harm.

this could impact on local public services relied on by women. Our Gender Edit Engender has produced a Gender Edit of the Budget , which compiles the full list of references to women in the Budget to see the relatively small number of areas

Scottish hate crime, misogyny, gender, sex, Scotland

referendum has provoked a public discourse so febrile and uncontained that some kind of peacebuilding will be necessary through September and October this year. You wouldn't know if from our latest constitutional cafe, which took place

A summary of the work Engender has been doing in the run up to the Scottish Parliament elections 2021