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Guest Post: During #AGORA16: Part 2

Claire is attending this year’sAGORA feminist school organised by the European Women’s Lobby. Her place has been sponsored by Engender who offered funding for a young BME feminist from Scotland to attend. We are hosting a series of blogs by Claire from AGORA throughout her feminist journey. Here she writes about her experiences during her time in Brussels.

Guest Post: During #AGORA16: Part 1

Claire is attending this year’sAGORA feminist school organised by the European Women’s Lobby. Her place has been sponsored by Engender who offered funding for a young BME feminist from Scotland to attend. We are hosting a series of blogs by Claire from AGORA throughout her feminist journey. Here she reflects on her departure from Scotland to Brussels. You can follow Claire on Twitter @ClaireShrugged.

 

Guest Post: Before #AGORA16: Young Feminist Summer School

Claire is attending this year’s AGORA feminist school organised by the European Women’s Lobby. Her place has been sponsored by Engender who offered funding for a young BME feminist from Scotland to attend. We’ll be hosting a series of blogs by Claire from the AGORA, here she talks about her feelings one week before leaving for Brussels.You can follow Claire on Twitter @ClaireShrugged.

Five reasons that media coverage of the pay gap is so bad (and why we think we should do better)

Yesterday saw the repeat of a ritual that happens a handful of times a year. An organisation - in this case the Chartered Management Institute - produces a figure it describes as a gender pay gap. News outlets contact organisations working on gender, or women and work, to ask for short quotes that explain both the pay gap and how we're going to fix it. These quotes are then strung together into pieces that are shaky on the facts and slight on analysis. In recent years, as the tenor of public discourse has softened slightly towards women's equality, they've been complemented by editorials denouncing the glacial rate at which the gap is narrowing. A couple of columnists may even take a swing at some particularly egregious examples of workplace discrimination, before the whole subject is unceremoniously bundled into an archive folder to wait for the next pay gap news release.

Shared Statement of Ambition on Social Care launched

Opening the Pandora's box of women and festivals

With the furore over Glastonbury festival's women-only space dying down, find out about Scotland's first women's music festival

On July 16th 2016, Pandora Fest will launch Scotland's first and only Women's Music Festival, supporting women musicians and celebrating female musicianship across all genres. Taking place at DunCarron Medieval Fort in Carron Valley near Falkirk, the festival aims to redress the gender imbalance inherent within the music industry.

Guest Post: A letter to women of the UK from your European sister

Guest blog from Mary Collins, European feminist and social justice advocate

Dear Sisters of the United Kingdom

Doing feminism in Europe

I spent last weekend at the European Women's Lobby general assembly in Brussels.

#Powertothebump - pregnancy and maternity rights for young women

Sexism in advertising, what can we do?

Caroline, Engender's recently recruited Membership Engagement Assistant, explores the effects of sexism in advertising and looks at how we can challenge gender inequality within the media.

I like to think it is now no secret that marketing communications shape the way in which women view themselves and the way that society views women. Advertising agencies (and the media) dictate our perceptions of beauty; creating unobtainable standards and enabling the fashion and beauty industry to capitalise on our insecurities. Is there anything we can do to stop these damaging portrayals of women?

Guest Post: Tackling ‘Lad Culture’ on campus

Guest blog from Anni Donaldson, the Knowledge Exchange Fellow & Project Lead at the University of Strathclyde's Equally Safe in Higher Education project. You can follow Anni, winner of the first 'The Write to End Violence Against Women Awards', on twitter.

Guest Post: Will 2016 be a high point for women’s representation at Holyrood?

It's polling day today for the Scottish Parliament election. Juliet Swann, Associate Consultant at McNeill & Stone, predicts what this will mean for women's representation.

Everything you need to know about the gender commitments in the Holyrood 2016 manifestos

Where does Scotland stand on women's equality?

Guest Post: Protection from harassment in the civil courts

Guest post by Jennifer Dalziel, solicitor for the Scottish Women's Rights Centre.

Gender Matters in Social Security - why we need individual payments of universal credit

Engender has joined a coalition of charities including women’s and equalities organisations, anti-poverty groups and the Scottish Trades Union Congress to release a paper calling on Scotland to use new powers over social security to promote women’s equality and diverge from the damaging UK policy of joint payments of Universal Credit.

Guest Post: 2016 - A new opportunity for Scotland

With the upcoming Scottish parliament elections Carla McCormack, from The Poverty Alliance, examines what devolution for Scotland could mean in terms of improved social security.

Guest Post: Gender Equality and the legal profession. What is being done in Scotland to create a balance?

Last month, our Executive Director Emma responded to an article written by Rob Marrs, head of education for The Law Society of Scotland, which looked at the gender-split within the legal profession. You can read the original article here.

Equal Voice, Equal Power: the case for gender quotas in Scotland

Today we've released our report making the case for gender quotas in Scottish Politics. We are calling for the Scottish Government to push for the devolution of electoral and equalities law to the Scottish Parliament, and for political parties to make equal representation a priority.