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What needs to happen to end violence against women?: Karen Ingala Smith

Karen Ingala Smith has been recording the names of and commemorating all UK women killed by men since 2012. She is co-founder of the Femicide Census. Karen is CEO...

This is a movement: Kiri Tunks

Kiri Tunks is a teacher and trade union activist. She is a co-founder of Woman’s Place UK. This is the speech she gave on the closing plenary of the...

Responses to Pi Media from WPUK and UCL Women’s Liberation SIG

On 21st January, a student news site UCL Pi Media published an article entitled ‘UCL hosting Women’s Place UK conference sparks concern’. This article has been edited several...

What Happened at Brighton: #WPUKLab19

Emily Ward attended the WPUK unofficial Labour Party fringe meeting in Brighton in September 2019. I was in Brighton, England on September 23rd for a meeting of Woman’s Place...

Misogyny in action: a rebuttal of statement by Trans Action Oxford

On 17th October 2019, Trans Action Oxford published an open letter attacking Woman’s Place UK and our forthcoming event, A Woman’s Place is at the lectern. This statement is...

WPUK submission to Law Commission consultation on surrogacy reform

There is no evidence that the Law Commissions have made any meaningful attempt to gather the views of surrogate mothers, particularly those who have regretted the experience or withdrawn...

WASPI Judgement: the sting of injustice

WPUK expresses shock and concern at impact of High Court pensions ruling on women’s rights. Woman’s Place UK shares the dismay and anger of the Backto60 and WASPI campaigns...

A Woman’s Place is at Conference

On Monday 23rd September, Woman’s Place UK held its 24th public meeting in two years: A Woman’s Place is at Conference. It was timed to coincide with the Labour...

Spousal Consent

WHAT IS 'SPOUSAL CONSENT' AS OUTLINED IN THE MARRIAGE (SAME SEX COUPLES) ACT 2013? The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, Schedule 5 and the Marriage and Civil Partnership Act...

WPUK statement on leaked EHRC schools guidance on trans pupils

On 30th August 2019, the Telegraph published a story about schools guidance on transgender pupils being prepared by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), a copy of which...

A Woman’s Place is on the front line: Hastings

IHave you thought about organising a WPUK where you live? We can help you and this account of how some of our supporters in Hastings did it should encourage...

A video introduction to WPUK

This short video was originally shown on the BBC’s Politics Live programme in October 2018. It has interviews with some members of WPUK and gives an idea of the...

The most vibrant feminist meeting of the year

Our meeting on Monday 20th May has certainly had a big impact. Lots of women who were there or who have heard about it have been in touch to...

Inspired, motivated, and ready to speak out

Kim Thomas was at our London meeting A Woman’s Place is back in town on May 20th. She was impressed. Every once in a while, if you’re lucky, you...

Troublesome women

Kiri Tunks is a socialist feminist and trade union activist. She is a co-founder of Woman’s Place UK. This is a transcript of the speech she gave on International Women’s Day...

Protected characteristics: Is your employer/service provider getting them right?

Is your employer, service provider, Council, NHS Trust, school (etc) getting Equality Law right? How to check that the protected characteristics are correctly listed and what to do when...

Government response to petition on ‘gender identity’

We welcome the government’s commitment to respectful and evidence-based discussion and to retaining Equality Act 2010 exemptions. For these exemptions to offer women the rights and protections we deserve,...

Changes to Cornwall meeting

Posie Parker will no longer be speaking at our Cornwall meeting as we object to her stated views on race and religion. We do not agree that this reflects...

Response to Scottish Review of the GRA

This is our response to the Scottish Government’s review of the Gender Recognition Act. Who we are We are a group of people from a range of backgrounds including...

Woman’s Place UK Oxford meeting

Woman’s Place UK is facing an orchestrated attempt by Oxford University student activists to shut down one of their public meetings in Oxford tonight about changes to transgender laws...

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