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as lifetime investment in wellbeing, and providing universal childcare would increase women’s autonomy. Quotas to create critical mass in industrial sectors, gender mainstreaming within education and skills, and revaluation

harmful to women’s wellbeing and their economic and social autonomy. The UK and Scottish Women’s Budget Groups have long since argued that the economic system is broken. The fundamental flaw is the failure to recognize and

impacts for women’s wellbeing. Lockdown and an as-yet-unknown scale of economic recession have disrupted women’s support networks, such as childcare, and made their livelihoods more precarious. This crisis will inevitably extend its

economic strategy or wellbeing and equality index. However, Scottish Labour did propose a statutory requirement for gender budgeting across all policy areas, as part of the Gender Equality Bill, and Scottish Greens pledged to improve the

massively impacts our own wellbeing and body image, but it has a ripple effect too. Everyone’s relationship with their body is unique and so personal, but there are shared experiences we can likely all relate to. To change the rest of

In this blog, Engender's Communications and Engagement Manager, Alys Mumford, talks about our continuing work to ensure access to free period products.

Engender recently produced a briefing for the Scottish Parliament's Health, Social Care and Sport Committee about women's health inequalities. This blog focuses on the role that gender plays in women's health inequalities.

good mental health and wellbeing in a wide range of ways, including the impacts of gender stereotyping, medical misogyny and racism, and of course the disproportionate impact that austerity, Covid-19 and the cost of living crises have on

a “ChildrenCount Wellbeing Survey” uncovered the prevalence of emotional control in teenage intimate relationships. Importantly, the strategy takes an intersectional approach by recognising the diverse impact of GBV on BME women,

We've been working with the ALLIANCE and The Health and Social Care Academy to gather information about experiences of pregnancy and maternity services during Covid-19 from women across Scotland. Alongside our work, we're sharing a series