There was no debate: TUC 2020
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) met this week to hold its annual conference. Like most meetings at the moment it was held online. Motions were moved and seconded – and… Read More →
Policy
Woman’s Place UK submission on Hate Crime & Public Order (Scotland) Bill
This is the WPUK submission to the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill Call for Views. We also submitted a PDF version of the record of all our meetings… Read More →
Making policies Equality Act compliant: Audrey Ludwig
Audrey Ludwig is a practising discrimination solicitor. Introduction This blog is loosely based on the talk I gave, with Julian Norman, at the WPUK Women’s Liberation Conference in February 2020.… Read More →
Girlguiding: campfires, crafts and compelled belief: Helen Watts
Helen Watts was involved in Girlguiding as a child and adult. Since 2018, she has been campaigned for Girlguiding to review their trans policy, which breaches girls’ right to privacy… Read More →
Women are under-represented in film – why the BFI needs to be held to account: Deirdre O’Neill
Filmmaker Deirdre O’Neill, who co-ordinates the Inside Film project, argues that the British Film Institute needs to do much more to tackle the barriers to women’s participation The relationship between… Read More →
Sex and transgender status in American employment law – the Bostock case: Elizabeth Hungerford
Elizabeth Hungerford is a licensed, though non practicing, attorney in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She identifies as a feminist, lives as a lesbian, is a longtime observer and sometime commenter… Read More →
Legally this is not a ‘trans rights issue’ it’s a ‘sex rights issue’ – a blog about boxes: Audrey Ludwig
Audrey Ludwig is a practising discrimination solicitor. The way the issue is portrayed by lobbyists, most politicians, many corporates and the media, is legally wrong. The “trans rights debate”, in… Read More →
2020 WPUK submission Labour Party Policy Forum: work, pensions and equality
This is the submission we made to the Labour Party Policy Forum 2020 on work pensions and equlity. We welcome the opportunity to contribute to Labour’s national policy forum consultation.… Read More →
Labour Campaign for Trans Rights letter to Catherine West MP: WPUK response
On 24th June 2020, the Labour Campaign for Trans Rights (LCTR) drafted a letter addressed to Catherine West, Labour MP for Haringey and Wood Green calling on her not to… Read More →
House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee Transgender Inquiry: A critique
This article has been republished here by permission of the authors. It was originally published on the Women Analysing Policy on Women website on 6th June 2017. A critique The… Read More →