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Guest blog: Indyref and violence against women (Indyref Thursday #4)
Guest blog: Childcare provision and the independence referendum (Indyref Thursday #3)
By Craig McAngus
This guest blog by Craig McAngus was originally posted on the Scottish Centre on Constitutional Change website. He is currently researching the implications of constitutional change for gender equality.
Refugee Women's Strategy Group, Umoja Inc, and Engender launch reports on gender and asylum
Scottish women's sector welcomes Equally Safe
A joint statement from Engender, Rape Crisis Scotland, Scottish Womenʼs Aid, Scottish
Womenʼs Convention, White Ribbon Scotland, Womenʼs Support Project and
Zero Tolerance
Guest post: ‘Women and Children First?’ The reality of maternity care for Scotland’s refused asylum seekers
By Vicky Glen
Guest post: Indyref discussion reveals enthusiasm for participatory decision-making
First all-female cabinet event a mixed bag on women's equality
Events like the first all-female cabinet meeting with the women's sector are generally more about symbolism than they are about substance. Sceptics have even made the point that the women of the Scottish cabinet only control 12% of the Scottish budget.
Women and equality: 100 days until indyref
It’s one hundred days until the referendum vote, and today more
than one hundred women will hear the female members of the Scottish cabinet speak
about their ambitions for gender equality in an independent Scotland.
Common Weal: Eradicating gender inequality and violence against women
This paper was written by Lesley
Orr, Emma Ritch, Marsha Scott, and Nel Whiting in May 2014. An edited
version appears as part of the text of the Common Weal book. An expanded
version will be published as a Common Weal paper later in the year.
Let us imagine a Scotland that begins from the hope of its citizens. It is a small but spacious country, and in our imagining, we see a society nurturing the common good of every girl, boy, woman and man. It offers that secure space for living in which each and all of us are supported to grow and flourish, developing our unique potential in safe environments that cultivate interdependence but also enable freedom to explore what makes us gloriously diverse and complex human beings. This spacious Scotland exercises a politics of dignity, justice, and care, in which all are invited to participate. All of us first, for our hoped-for commonweal is animated by the spirit and practice of equality. Such a Scotland cannot tolerate gender-based violation, exploitation, or abuse.
UN Special Rapporteur's appraisal of sexist UK causes stramash
If you've caught a newspaper, TV news report, or spent any time on social media over the last few days, you cannot have failed to notice the storm of protest that greeted Professor Rashida Manjoo's determination that there was sexism going on in the UK.
Event on 'welfare reform' and gender
Last week we held an event at Holyrood to discuss our paper on ‘welfare reform’ and gender. This is a joint piece of work* that tells a story about why women are penalised by this agenda in so many different ways and turns to how we might address the gender impact.
Launching our joint paper on gender and 'welfare reform'
Today Engender is launching a joint position paper on gender and ‘welfare reform’, in collaboration with Close the Gap, Scottish Refugee Council, Scottish Women’s Aid, Scottish Women’s Convention and Zero Tolerance.
Guest post: Scottish Women in Sport
The statistics are damning. While 70% of boys participate in regular exercise, reports suggest that the figure for girls could be as low as 31%, with only 12% of 14-year-old girls taking the recommended amount of activity.
Referendum resources
Last Thursday, I was at a very interesting roundtable hosted by the Equality and Human Rights Commission on human rights and the independence referendum.
Scottish Labour's 'red paper'
The Scottish Labour party launched Together We Can at its conference in Perth last weekend. The document sets out its case for a ‘no vote’ in the referendum and the bones of its manifesto for the Scottish parliamentary elections in 2016.
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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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