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Guest Blog: Why do older women in Scotland experience further financial inequality?
Women experience high levels of pension inequality, due to women’s care responsibilities, part-time work, occupational segregation, the gender pay gap and maternity and gender discrimination at work, reducing women’s access to both state and private pensions. In this guest blog, Louise Brady from Independent Age explores the links between state pensions and gender inequality, what we can learn from the Older People’s Economic Wellbeing Index, and what needs to change.
Supreme Court Judgment
At Engender it will take us time to fully assess the implications of the lengthy and complex judgment released today by the Supreme Court. We will share further reflections in due course..png)
Joining Up Policymaking to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls
Free Feminist Artwork...
We’ve a wee surprise for you this International Women’s Day...We’ll be sending out a stunning limited edition A6 print to every Engender member, created by fabulous local designer, Madeleine Leisk.
3 Steps to Achieving Primary Prevention in Housing
We’ve published the second in our series of mini-briefings shining a spotlight on how to achieve a primary prevention approach in different areas of public policy with this new briefing highlighting why ensuring women’s access to safe, secure and quality housing is essential for advancing women’s equality and preventing VAWG once and for all.
Why we need better data collection to improve women’s representation
We’ve written to the Minister of State for Women and Equalities, Annelise Dodds MP, calling on the UK Government to enact Section 106 of the Equality Act 2010.-600.jpg)
16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
Amplifying Marginalised Perspectives Through Journalism and StorytellingMigrant Women Press have launched a powerful new initiative dedicated to raising awareness about the specific and often overlooked challenges faced by migrant and ethnically diverse women victims/survivors of gender-based violence.
GUEST POST: The Repeal of the Concealment of Birth Act is Urgently Needed
Earlier this year, we launched our campaign calling for modernised abortion law in Scotland that works for women’s human rights and prevents unnecessary prosecutions. You can read our report here. Part of the outdated patchwork of laws that restrict women’s reproductive rights is the little-known Concealment of Birth Act. In this blog, expert Dr Emma Milne explores how the Act criminalises vulnerable women and why we need action to create a system that puts women’s needs first..png)
Invitation to Tender, Development of Engender’s Strategic Plan 2025-2030
We are seeking a consultant(s) to work with us to deliver a strategic review and planning process that will result in the development of Engender’s next Strategic Plan 2025-2030. This process will help us focus our efforts and resources on securing the most impactful change for women in Scotland. To do this, we must engage with a diversity of women and identify priorities that work for the most marginalised. Undertaking this process now will help us ensure that our organisation is in a strong position to respond to future challenges.
Broken and biased: new report shows impact of housing emergency on women
A new report published today by Shelter Scotland and Engender shines a light on the disproportionate impact of the housing emergency on women, and the additional barriers they face in accessing safe, secure, affordable, housing.
Why we need to modernise abortion law in Scotland - your questions answered
For too long women in Scotland & the UK have had to settle for a system of abortion law that doesn’t put their needs & rights first. We’re calling for modernised abortion law that works for women’s human rights & prevents further unnecessary prosecutions.
8 Steps Towards Women’s Equality in Scotland
Ahead of the next Programme for Government for 2024-25, we have outlined several important actions we want the Scottish Government to take to protect women’s rights and promote gender equality in Scotland.
Join our team: Project Manager, Equal Media & Culture Centre for Scotland
Closing date: August 19, 2024
Anticipated week of interview: Thursday the 29th of August.
General Election 2024 - The Rwanda Scheme & Safety of Women – Joint Blog with Amina MWRC
[Content Note: abuse, sexual assault]
General Election 2024 - Reforming social security to fight women's poverty
We’re calling on candidates in the upcoming General Election to commit to taking action on four key areas for women if elected.
General Election 2024 – The urgent need to modernise abortion law.
We’re calling on candidates in the upcoming General Election to commit to taking action on four key areas for women if elected. In our What’s in it for women? four-part series, we’ll break down each of our key asks covering health, social security, equal representation and immigration.
General Election 2024?– What’s in it for women??
Email your local candidates with our pre-written letter hereIn a few clicks, contact your local candidates to ask what they will do for women's rights in Scotland.
- Find your local candidates by searching your postcode below
- On the next page, edit and send the campaign letter
GUEST POST: Do we need diversity quotas in film?
Engender and the Equal Media and Culture Centre for Scotland have hosted student placements from the MSc in Social Research at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Strathclyde Applied Gender Studies and Research Methods course. As part of their research outputs, the students have produced a series of blogs.In this post, Alex looks at why there's still work to do to ensure diversity behind the camera in Scotland's film industry.
Call for expert working group on decriminalisation of abortion accepted by Scottish Government
Abortion care in Scotland is in urgent need of modernisation, with the current framework acting as a drag on services and as a barrier to timely access. In June we wrote to the First Minister on abortion rights, alongside 16 other equalities, abortion and health organisations. In the letter, we welcomed the commitments made on the leadership campaign trail and called for creation of an expert working group on decriminalisation of abortion.
Cost of Living: Fight Against Poverty is a Fight for Gender Equality
Lucy Hughes, Engender's Policy and Parliamentary Manager, recently published an article about the ongoing crisis of women’s poverty, as part of the Poverty Alliance’s Scottish Anti-Poverty Review. The article argues that intersectional gender analysis is essential when developing policy that tackles poverty in Scotland. In this blog Lucy has pulled out some of the key headlines from the article, which is available to read in full here.
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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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