Throughout 2020-2022, Engender has held a number of events and webinars exploring issues of women's inequality. You can find recordings of the events here.
To Exist is to Resist: Exploring Black Feminism in Europe
Date: 8th March 2022
Speakers:
Professor Akwugo Emejulu, Author
Assa Samaké-Roman, Journalist
Welcome: Alys Mumford, Engender
Make Bosses Pay with Eve Livingston
Date: 5th November 2021
Speakers:
Eve Livingston, Make Bosses Pay author and journalist
Chair: Suki Sangha, trade union organiser
Welcome: Alys Mumford, Communications and Engagement Manager, Engender
Feminist City with Leslie Kern
Date: 27th September 2021
Speakers:
Leslie Kern, Feminist City author and academic
Chair: Daisy Narayanan, planning and sustainable transport expert
Welcome: Alys Mumford, Communications and Engagement Manager, Engender
Hustings for Women's Equality
Presented by Engender in partnership with national women’s equality organisations.
Date: 1st April 2021
Speakers:
Welcome: Emma Ritch, Executive Director
of Engender
Chair: Tasnim Nazeer, journalist, author, and freelance TV reporter
Jackie Baillie, Scottish Labour Spokesperson for
Health, Sport and Equalities, Scottish
Labour Party
Rachael Hamilton,
Party Spokesperson on Social Security and Older People, Scottish Conservatives
Willie Rennie, Leader of the Scottish Liberal
Democrats, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Lorna Slater, Co-Leader of the Scottish Green Party,
Scottish Green Party
Nicola Sturgeon,
First Minister and SNP Party Leader, Scottish
National Party
Everyday Misogyny with Laura Bates
Presented by Rape Crisis Scotland and Engender
Date: 11th March 2021
Speakers:
Laura Bates, journalist, author and founder of the Everyday Sexism project
Talat Yaqoob (Chair), member of the First Minister’s Advisory Council on Women and Girls
Kathryn Dawson, Sexual Violence Prevention Coordinator at Rape Crisis Scotland
Emma Ritch, Executive Director of Engender
What Works for Women: improving gender mainstreaming in Scotland
Date: 23rd November 2020
Speakers:
Emma Ritch, Executive Director at Engender
Talat Yaqoob, Member of the First Minister's National Advisory Council on Women and Girls
Lindsey Millen, Policy Manager at Close The Gap.
Covid-19 and Women's Equality
Date: 24th November 2020
Speakers:
Emma Ritch, Engender Scotland's feminist policy organisation
Jonna Monaghan, Northern Ireland Women's European Platform
Catherine Fookes, Women's Equality Network Wales
Catriona Graham, European Women's Lobby
Chair: Jen Ang, JustRight Scotland
Poland and Women's Equality: what's going on?
Date: 10th November 2020
Speakers:
Patrycja Kupiec, Young Women's Movement Scotland
Jo Zawadzka, Activist
Martyna Kampa, Edinburgh Queer Collective
Ewa Sochacka McKee, Women's Strike
Naomi Connor, Alliance for Choice
Chair: Alys Mumford, Engender
Understanding the Equality Act
Date: 6th November 2020
Speakers:
Professor Nicole Busby, Professor in Human Rights, Equality and Justice, University of Glasgow
Lynn Welsh, Head of Legal at the Equality and Human Rights Commission
Professor Sharon Cowan, Professor of Feminist and Queer Legal Studies, University of Edinburgh
Chair: Emma Ritch, Executive Director at Engender
Making Misogyny a Hate Crime in Scotland
Date: 20th October 2020
Speakers:
Emma Ritch, Executive Director at Engender
Sandy Brindley, Chief Executive at Rape Crisis Scotland
RT @womenslibrary: Our wonderful volunteer Mauragh has created a Visual & Sensory guide to GWL which will be available both on our website and in the library very soon. This guide has been put together to help visitors understand how to get to and around the Glasgow Women’s Library.
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