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Violence against women and sex discrimination still exist. Women need reserved places, separate spaces and distinct services.

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An open letter to Edinburgh University

We welcome Professor Peter Mathieson's recent statement in response to the concerning events that...

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An open letter to Edinburgh University

WPUK Mythbusters – A response to the IRR and others

There have been several articles and comments published recently, including one by the Institute...

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The Political Erasure of Sex

We are delighted to be supporting this important new work by Jane Clare Jones....

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Woman’s Place UK is a group of women from a range of backgrounds who are united by our belief that women’s hard-won rights must be defended.

Women face entrenched and endemic structural inequality. This is reflected, for example, in the high levels of sexual harassment and violence against women and girls, the 'gender' pay gap, and discrimination at work.

This is why sex is a protected characteristic in the Equality Act 2010. We believe it must be defended.

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Chair: Lucy Masoud is a barrister, feminist campaigner, a former firefighter and a Director of Woman’s Place UK. As a firefighter Lucy campaigned against mixed sex changing rooms on fire stations, and was also heavily involved in the fight for justice for the survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire. Lucy is currently a family barrister who specialises in representing female victims of domestic violence. @luluchops1 'Today is 3yrs since the The Labour Women's Declaration's #ExpelMe Rally here at Maxilla. A rally held as a response to senior Labour MPs signing a pledge threatening to expel any members who supported Woman's Place UK or LGBAlliance'. Woman’s Place UK is the winner of the Emma Humphreys Memorial Group Prize 2018. WPUK is a grassroots feminist campaign, formed by a group of women in the labour and trade union movement to uphold women’s sex-based rights under the Equality Act 2010. @Womans_Place_UK
'On my desk was a suffragette ribbon, wrapped up like a wrist band, and this woman whispered to me, 'keep going, we see & we hear & we are behind you'. Onjali Rauf MBE is a best-selling British author and the founder of the NGO Making Herstory a womens’ rights organisation tackling the abuse and trafficking of women. She is a Sunday Times bestselling children’s author. In 2018, she published her first children’s book, The Boy at the Back of the Class which went on to win the Waterstones and Blue Peter Book Awards, and in 2019, published The Star Outside My Window, a story highlighting the impact of domestic violence upon children. @OnjaliRauf
#WPUKWinning Afsana Lachaux is an award winning women’s rights campaigner and social policy expert. Afsana fought a high profile international custody battle following a court ruling in the United Arab Emirates that granted her husband a Sharia divorce and sole custody of their son Louis. She won a landmark legal victory for women’s rights in France and changed UK Foreign Office advice for British women travelling to the Gulf, to help protect them from discrimination. Afsana is a former senior civil servant and is currently working at The Prince’s Trust. @afsanalachaux Woman’s Place UK is the winner of the Emma Humphreys Memorial Group Prize 2018. WPUK is a grassroots feminist campaign, formed by a group of women in the labour and trade union movement to uphold women’s sex-based rights under the Equality Act 2010. @Womans_Place_UK