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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

The cost of living crisis is an issue which is profoundedly gendered. This blog, containing extracts taken from our submissions to the Scottish Government sets out some of the ways that the cost of living crisis is also a crisis for women's

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

to Scotland's economic wellbeing. For the past few years, we've been asking women to share the invisible work they've been doing. We've been doing this through an online survey, commissioning photo essays, and using the

Abortion remains within the criminal justice system in Scotland, with women requiring the approval of two doctors to access routine, safe reproductive healthcare.

Women in Scotland earn less than men, and are more likely than men to be in part-time or precarious work.