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Women’s rights are at risk in Scotland, as Brexit and challenges to the Human Rights Act threaten to undermine hard-won victories like protection from maternity discrimination.

Social Security is a vital tool to address inequality in Scotland. But women have borne the brunt of cuts to social security entitlements and public services due to the policy of austerity from UK Government.

Engender has been working with Close the Gap, and other women's organisations across the UK, to carry out some polling work to see how Covid has impacted on women's lives.

Today, we joined with 26 organisations working for equality and human rights in Scotland to write to John Swinney expressing our “dismay” and “deep concerns” following the publication of the Scottish Government’s Terms

privacy, dignity, and wellbeing above all else. Over decades of practice, services have developed ways of managing any risk to individual women’s wellbeing that may arise from interacting with other service users. All of our

their home for health and wellbeing reasons. It helped us feel less covert, less judged, but the majority of our families lived too far away for it to matter. It was still illegal to travel between different 'levels'. Because of the

capture increases in the wellbeing of the people of Scotland. In particular, they argue that existing economic indicators and systems of accounting provide “at best a partial, and at worse a misleading, perspective on the productivity and

to women's equality and wellbeing. Across Scotland, women and families benefit from being able to safely end both unwanted pregnancies, and much wanted pregnancies that have become dangerous to the mother. Abortion is safe, and used by women

in health and wellbeing that undermine the right to health for women in Scotland. Implement and expand the Women’s Health Plan to include non-sex-specific health inequalities and ensure a greater focus on

Engender has been working with Close the Gap, and other women's organisations across the UK, to carry out some polling work to see how Covid has impacted on women's lives.