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Guest Post: Why the dialogue on street harassment needs to remain open
Lindsay Linning is a MSc student at Edinburgh University in Sociology and is currently preparing her dissertation on gender-based street harassment, as well as working in conjunction with Hollaback! Edinburgh. Here she writes on her experiences of street harassment and the results of a recent Hollaback! survey.
Guest Post: Gender matters in refugee policy
Dr Sophie Cartwright is a former volunteer at the Unity Centre in Glasgow and a regular contributor to BrightGreen. Here she writes on why 'safe return review' and deportation is cruel and dangerous - and will disproportionately impact women and girls who have fled gender-based violence.
Scottish women’s organisations make final appeal to House of Lords to scrap the 'rape clause'
Today, Engender are calling on a little-known House of Lords committee to re-examine the so called ‘rape clause’ which limits tax credits and the child element of Universal Credit to two children unless a third or subsequent child was the result of rape. In a letter to the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee of the House of Lords, we've joined with Rape Crisis Scotland and Scottish Women’s Aid, to challenge the basis of the legislation itself, and the manner in which it was covertly passed using a procedure that avoided parliamentary debate.
#ScotSocialSecurity and language
Emma Trottier is Engender’s policy manager, and leads our work on social security. Over the coming months she’ll be blogging about the key issues at the heart of the debate about Scotland’s new social security system. Here, she talks about the importance of language.#MakingWorkVisible as it happened on #IWD2017
A snapshot of the day as we launched #MakingWorkVisible
Help us to make women's work visible this International Women's Day
SUCCESS: Scottish Government commits to individual payments of Universal Credit
Message from Jeane Freeman - Minister for Social Security
I want to thank you for all the help and support you have given us during our consultation on a Social Security system for Scotland and the part you played in the recent social security consultation.
Scotland must take this chance to stand up for women's reproductive rights
This blog first appeared on OpenDemocracy.It’s been a depressing year for anyone who cares about a woman’s right to choose (ok, it’s been a depressing year for everyone, but bear with me).
Our bodies, our choice: the case for a Scottish approach to abortion
Guest Post: A Woman’s Place is in the Kitchen (a professional kitchen, that is)
Guest post from Leonie SookeLeonie is a freelance chef and food stylist. Strongly influenced by working under a number of inspiring female head chefs, her career spans television; cookery books; London restaurant work; writing and presenting prominent talks for the V&A and Tate Britain, which showcase irreverent women in food history. Find her at curatedcakes.com or on instagram @Leoniesooke
Women-only leadership: progressive or discriminatory?
A very familiar question was raised again this week: should
women-only
organisations, women-only services, and women-only governance and leadership
be lauded as progressive or shunned as discriminatory? Several media outlets reported on the fact
that Moray Women’s Aid has elected to leave the Scottish Women’s Aid network. The
local women’s aid is in contravention of its network’s shared commitment to
individual services being governed and staffed by women, having confirmed that
is has at least one man on its board of directors, Cllr Graham Leadbitter.
6 reasons you should fill out the Scottish Government Consultation on Social Security (with musical accompaniment)
1) A change is gonna come
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Engender Briefing: Pension Credit Entitlement Changes
From 15 May 2019, new changes will be introduced which will require couples where one partner has reached state pension age and one has not (‘mixed age couples’) to claim universal credit (UC) instead of Pension Credit.
Engender Parliamentary Briefing: Condemnation of Misogyny, Racism, Harassment and Sexism
Engender welcomes this Scottish Parliament Debate on Condemnation of Misogyny, Racism, Harassment and Sexism and the opportunity to raise awareness of the ways in which women in Scotland’s inequality contributes to gender-based violence.
Gender Matters in Social Security: Individual Payments of Universal Credit
A paper calling on the Scottish Government to automatically split payments of Universal Credit between couples, once this power is devolved to the Scottish Parliament.
Gender Matters Manifesto: Twenty for 2016
This manifesto sets out measures that, with political will, can be taken over the next parliamentary term in pursuit of these goals.
Scottish NGO Briefing for UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women
Joint briefing paper for the UN Rapporteur on Violence Against Women.
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