Event recordings
Throughout 2020-2023, Engender has held a number of events and webinars exploring issues of women's inequality. You can find recordings of the events here.
Sex & Power in Scotland 2023: A Call for Feminist Leadership
Date: 18th July 2023
Speakers:
- Jackie Galbraith, West Lothian College
- Pheona Matovu, Radiant & Brighter
- Suzanne Motherwell, Transport Scotland
Chaired by Jade Stein, Engender, with Catherine Murphy, Executive Director of Engender
Policymaking & Preventing Violence Against Women & Girls in Scotland
Date: 20th April
Speakers:
- Emily St Denny, University of Copenhagen
- Maïna Coroller-Larifla, Sustrans Scotland
Chaired by Hannah Brisbane, Engender
The Cost of Living: A Deepening Crisis for Women's Equality
Date: 13th November
Speakers:
- Satwat Rehman, One Parent Families Scotland
- Fiona Collie, Carers Scotland
- Sara Cowan, Scottish Women's Budget Group
Chaired by Alys Mumford, Engender
DECRIMINALISATION: What would it mean for abortion rights in Scotland?
Date: 6th October 2022
Speakers:
- Dr Lynsey Mitchell, Lecturer in Law at the University of Strathclyde
- Audrey Brown, Abortion Care Doctor
- Alys Mumford, Engender
Chaired by Georgina Cosby, Abortion Rights Scotland
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
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